>Hopefully a member of this forum can provide a brief overview of the diary entries.
Well, the every reliable Bill Stone has provided an excerpt from the diary . . . and it's really good. Check out the full entry at the Stone & Stone website - link below.
16 March 1941 - Diary of Corp. Leonard Guttridge
"Next morning. Breakfast (bread and corned beef, smoky tea) served to long queue by sleepless cooks and WAAFs. No. 25 Hanger was wrecked, two new Beaufighters written off—inside rested an unexploded bomb, 50-yards radius from it roped off. Out on the field our Lysanders and Blenheim were untouched, though shrapnel lay not far from them, and dozens of burn patches showed where incendiary bombs had exploded.
I've heard so far that three were killed, over 30 injured. Last night a number of men left the camp for safety, but fog descended, ruling out further attack. There are shrapnel holes in the wall three feet from where I write this."
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