Stephen
At hand I have only my notes but I can get respective pages of the ORB.
I would appreciate if you can get any accounts of 404 Sqn boys recorded somehow. I had a lot of problems locating any Canadians for my project.
Kjetil
What is unreasonable here?
I see no evidence that 315 performed badly on this mission. I see the mission did not went entirely according to plan, but perhaps those were planners responsible, who send only one Squadron to escort such a big formation?
The fact that some people have not seen them is no proof of anything. Standard procedure was to climb into the sun to avoid surprising attack and orbit. It is obvious this tactics could not work with so many Lancasters flying on their own and the escort was not adequate. Comparison to other attacks is not fair either. Any daylight attack involved several Squadrons flying diversions, sweeps, close escorts, top covers, etc.
Daylight and night flying were two entirely different things and generally RAF BC pilots lacked experience in this regard.
Nobody is going to cover anything but there must be some proofs and not conclusions drawn on vague arguments.
Olve
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Originally Posted by odybvig
It seems that nobody knows
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If nobody knows, how do you know they were not there?
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As I said; one of the reason. That's my conclusion
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Your conclusions drawn on rather weak evidence. Tell me, if there were any actions to be taken, would the Squadron leader remain on his position up until April 1945?
Based on similar evidence as yours I may say Norses were poor on escort duties as they never got Mustangs. Pretty well reasoned. It is a nonsense of course, but similar to your logic.