Tuesday the 23rd of July 1940

Day: Slight activity over east coast convoys. Limited daytime activity (shipping attacks along the South and East coasts).
 First 'kill' by an aircraft using airborne interception radar, when a Do 17 Z is shot down off Brighton by a Blenheim of the Fighter Interception Unit at Tangmere on the night of the 22/23 of July 1940.

Night: Widespread minelaying along the entire eastern seaboard.

Losses: Luftwaffe 6: Fighter Command 0.

Weather:  Channel haze, elsewhere it was cloudy with rain at times.


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