Only an hour of counter battery patrol today, on account of the high winds – 45 mph – hence it was “fearfully bumpy”.
Log Book
Date: 14.6.18
Hour: 12.40
Machine type: RE8
No.: 6548
Observer: Lt Roche
Time: 1 hr
Height: 1800
Course/Remarks: C.B.P. V. windy (45 mph).
Good landing.
Diary
Friday June 14th. RE 6548. Very windy, about 45 mph. Counter battery patrol 12.30 to 1.30. Fearfully bumpy. Good landing – rather more luck than anything else. Explosion near Merville.
Rely aerodrome certainly would have caught the wind. It is located on what passes for high ground in Artois, south of the Lys – just on the 100 m contour line – whereas the Lys valley around Merville is less than 20 m above sea level. Hence the fearful bumpiness.
Counter Batter Patrols
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