The 18 Sqdn left from an unknown RAF station at 1942-07-18 at an unknown time. Loc or duty Air Test
He flew with a Bristol Blenheim (type IV, serial Z7304, code WV-).
Campaign report of the USAAF:
Harry Hopkins, General George C Marshall, Admiral Ernest V King, Prime Minister Winston S Churchill and the British Chiefs of Staff begin a conference in London on the proposed invasion of N Africa (Operation TORCH).
Campaign report of the RAF:
18 July 1942
10 Lancasters to Essen but only 3 aircraft bombed, by Gee, through thick cloud and another aircraft attacked a ship in the East Scheldt river. No aircraft lost.
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