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Old 20th Mar 2012, 22:56
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glojo
 
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Hi Cosmic,
If you are referring to my post you will see that I have stated that five aircraft were shot down by her during the whole conflict.

When ships are working together there will always be confusion as to who hit what or what was the final shell, missile that did the damage. When Plymouth was damaged on the 8th June she claims to have damaged two aircraft, she certainly did not claim to have destroyed two or indeed five. Bottom line was that bay was like Piccadilly Circus on a Saturday night, no one was sticking to the rules of the road, aircraft, lead, missiles, bombs and small arms fire filled the skies and we were VERY lucky to have only lost the ships we did.

As an aside, bar bills were 'accidentally' lost over the side whilst repairs were carried out but 'Davey Jones' refused to accept this book. It got washed ashore and subsequently handed back to the President of the Mess!
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