[Brian]

Thanks once again, guys.

Some discussion! Excellent!

Thanks Brian for the figures - they provide a guide. I have a note that some 200 airmen (RAF and Luftwaffe?) were lost over the Channel in 1940, and that some could have been saved had the RAF/FAA adequate seaplanes etc. Any comment on this?

Were Walruses armed when they were used on ASR missions?

One point I don't believe that has been mentioned was that Dowding and Churchill were very angry when the French released all their thousands of prisoners from the fighting in France etc, which included some 400 airmen who had been shot down

"They would be used to bomb this country, and thus force our airmen to shoot them down for the second time over ..."

I'm sure this would have been fresh in their memories when the decision to shoot down the Red Cross aircraft was made.

Cheers
Brian