Regle,
I am finally getting a chance to read this forum from the beginning and see that you were posted to HCU 1663 in May '43. Doug was posted at the same from May 25 to July 6 '43 then on to sqdn 51. Researching 1663 I noticed that 1663 participated in supporting some operations for spoof raids and also for mine laying exercises. Do you remember if any ops while in 1663 would count towards the 30 - I'm trying to count all of Doug's ops and only count 17 from Snaith (an additional 7 were aborted). Actually any specifics of what your responsibilities and activities were while at 1663 would be interesting.
Ciffnemo
So a night fighter would land/reload and go after the stream again? I noticed with the help of Icare9 that the same nightfigher pilot claimed four kills (all lancs) on the same Leipzig raid.
Tip: its a bit gnarly but if you want to search this forum to see what has been discussed in the past you can use google site search as follows;
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Regards,
Rodger