| Day: Additional Fighter Command Squadrons are moved
to forward bases. The heavy afternoon raid en route for Dover was broken
up. During this operation Major Werner Mölders, Geschwader commander
of JG 51 and one of the top three Luftwaffe pilots up to this time, is
wounded in combat with Squadron-Leader 'Sailor' Malan, C/O of No 74 Squadron.
Night: Limited activity drops almost to nothing, due to the weather. Losses: Luftwaffe 13: Fighter Command 5. Weather: Fine all day with haze in the Channel. |
| Squadron | Aircraft |
|
Pilot |
| No 257 Squadron | Hurricane I |
P3622 |
R.V.Forward |
| No 41 Squadron | Spitfire I |
|
A.D.J.Lovell |
| No 74 Squadron | Spitfire I |
|
E.A.Mould |
| No 74 Squadron | Spitfire I |
|
J.H.R.Young |
| No 92 Squadron | Spitfire I |
|
T.S.Wade |
|
|