[Andy_Ingham]

The 66 Sqn ORB has the following:

20 May 42 - 4 A/C up from Ibsley at 1400 on shipping recce. Crossed coast at Portland Bill, but there was so much cloud that they returned without seeing anything.

30 May 42 - Nothing of significance recorded in F540. A training exercise was carried out and the Squadron was released at 1300. The F541 does list Gover as flying a Shipping Recce early in the morning.

31 May 42 - Nothing of significance recorded in F540. Again a training exercise was carried out by the Squadron. The F541 does list Gover as flying an Interception Patrol at 1530.

19 Aug 42 - The F40 states that no shots were fired by the squadron on the first and second patrols over Dieppe. The F541 does state that a Fw190 was shot down but by another squadron.

Looks like a bit of poet license by the author!