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Credit to Graeme - rafcommands web site.
From 'The Greatest Air Battle', Norman Franks.
"13 Squadrons Blenheim IVs had been given the task of blinding 2 well positioned anti-aircraft batteries commanding the cliffs on the left side of Dieppe - the east headland, code named 'Bismarck' by the Allied planners. The pilots had had difficulty in forming up in the dark and so the pilots made individual approaches, all made successful drops to landward, the resulting smoke effectively screening the 2 hostile batteries. Five of the Blenheims flew back from the attack but PO Woodland's machine was presumed hit by AA fire for it failed to return 24year old Cecil Woodland, from Hampshire with his crew, Sergeantshenry neville and Austin Boyd from Belfast were posted as missing. The RAF's first casualties of Operation Jubilee"
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On weald of Kent I watched once more
Again I heard that grumbling roar
Of fighter planes; yet none were near
And all around the sky was clear
Borne on the wind a whisper came
'Though men grow old, they stay the same'
And then I knew, unseen to eye
The ageless Few were sweeping by
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