Sunday 21 July 1918 – No Windy Shoot

A windy day, and a ‘hot air’ take off.  Greg is relieved not to have to do a shoot in the evening.

Log Book

Log BookLog Book

Date: 21.7.17 
Time: 7.50 
Rounds: - 
Bombs: - 
RE8: 2517 
Observer: Lt. Hodgson 
Time: 50 m 
Height: 3000 
Course/Remarks: Attempted shoot with 237 SB. Unsucc.

Diary

Diary

Sunday July 21st.  Very windy all day.

At 8pm, hot-aired up into the atmosphere to do a shoot.  To my great relief the battery did not take any notice of my signals when I called them up, so tootled back home again.

More on “hot air” here:

Thursday 4 July 1918 – Hot-Air Bomb Raid

More on shoots here:

Observation of Artillery Fire – A Shoot

 

 

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