144 Squadron, 27 December 1943

[andy bird]

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Six 404 Beaufighters provided escort to four 144 Squadron aircraft on a Rover Patrol from Stavanger to Egers area.

A convoy of four merchants and three escort vessels was sighted and attacked. All of the ships were claimed as damaged with cannon fire and rockets with the largest trailing smoke rising to 500 feet. Post war records have only identified one vessel; the German Auxiliary Whaler V-5301 Seeteufel of 541 tons as having been damaged by rockets.

Three of the aircraft received slight damage from flak. The excitement of the day was not over because on the way home three aircraft were sighted and chased, but they managed to escape into the cloud.

Andy Bird