Fairey Battle P21.., 103 Squadron RAF.

[Peter Cornwell]

Hello Martin,

I did not suggest that the code letters quoted by Gillet were transposed in error, though I can see how one could arrive at that assumption and which may well be correct. I prefer to accept that he had sound (photo?) evidence to support his statement and that the individual code letters had been changed (it happens) for some reason.

Whatever, at least we can now be sure that on the day it was lost P2191 was actually PM.K and I have no reason to contradict the conclusion by both Gillet and Sheal that it was the aircraft flown by Sgt Perry.

The only shot I can find of PM.J is attached and though unhelpful but may be the photo to which you refer ? If this was captioned as K9374 then I missed it. So if anyone out there in the ether can confirm this I too would be most grateful. K9372, as you correctly suppose, was a complete wreck but internal server problems are preventing me from down-loading a further image.