Year by Year › 1942
1942
Madagascar, Pedestal and command of 880
Indomitable sails with the Eastern Fleet and supports the landings on Madagascar in May. In July Bill climbs Kilimanjaro. In August, on the Malta convoy Operation Pedestal, he shoots down a Ju 88 and brings his damaged Sea Hurricane back for a dead-stick landing on the carrier. In September he is given command of 880 Squadron, and in November his Seafires cover the landings in North Africa from HMS Argus.
7 letters · 168 flights, 153 hours 15 minutes · 1 newspaper cutting · 12 books
January
Flew
9 flights, 10 hours 20 minutes: Hurricane 9
February
Places named
Flew
20 flights, 24 hours 30 minutes: Fulmar 12, Hurricane 8
March
Places named
Flew
12 flights, 13 hours 40 minutes: Hurricane 12
April
Places named
Flew
14 flights, 11 hours 40 minutes: Hurricane 14
May
Flew
5 flights, 7 hours 10 minutes: Hurricane 5
June
Places named
Flew
14 flights, 8 hours 0 minutes: Hurricane 9, Fulmar 5
Wrote
July
Places named
Flew
16 flights, 12 hours 40 minutes: Hurricane 16
August
Flew
7 flights, 9 hours 20 minutes: Hurricane 7
September
Places named
Flew
15 flights, 8 hours 20 minutes: Spitfire 13, Seafire 2
October
Places named
Flew
21 flights, 18 hours 20 minutes: Seafire 20, Spitfire 1
November
Flew
11 flights, 11 hours 5 minutes: Seafire 11
December
Flew
24 flights, 18 hours 10 minutes: Seafire 24
In the books
- Sea Flight Hugh Popham, 1954
- Bader Michael G. Burns, 1990
- Malta: The Spitfire Year 1942 Christopher Shores, Brian Cull and Nicola Malizia, 1991
- Naval Fighter Pilot A. H. Wren, 1998
- The Fleet Air Arm Handbook, 1939–1945 David Wragg, 2001
- Royal Navy Aces of World War 2 Andrew Thomas, 2007
- Aces High, Volume 2 Christopher Shores, 2008
- Operation Pedestal Brian James Crabb, 2014
- A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940–1945: Volume Three Christopher Shores, Giovanni Massimello and Russell Guest, 2016
- Hurricane John Dibbs, Tony Holmes and Gordon Riley, 2017
- Taranto David Hobbs, 2020
- Hurricanes in Action Worldwide! Adrian Stewart, 2022