Battle of Britain Squadron ORB accuracy

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by Jon

If a Squadron ORB does not mention a certain pilot but, i have reason to believe he was flying that day, how can i look further into it to establish a definate yes or no?

If you don't have the man's logbook, the answer would be to cross-reference with any other source that you can find/think of. This might be higher formations' ORBs (as has been suggested already), other pilots' sortie reports (surviving ones are at the National Archives), letters, diaries, printed memoirs etc. Anything that might mention your guy's name, in fact.

Also at the National Archives you can find Medical Officers' reports for some Squadrons (usually headed "Medical History of the War") and, appended to ORBs, there are sometimes Personal [or is it Personnel?] Occurrence Reports. Most of these are adminstrative but they might reveal something about a person's health or whereabouts at a given time.