The “Benghasi Old Boys"- as many of the crews now call themselves— were assembled for another trip to this port at an extremely early hour, for – before 5 a.m. nine of our machines, headed by Major Fowler were in the air, heading for O.75 where they refuelled and took off again. Bombs were released in the target area shortly after 1000 oclock and by swinging sharply EAST, the formation avoided the heavy a/a which had swung over in misguided anticipation in exactly the opposite direction. The entire formation returned safely only one plane receiving superficial damage from shrapnel which burst to the left of the formation.
A second operation today consisted of a search by two Marylands for two boats understood to be carrying survivors from H.M.S. Latona. Independent searches in two areas were carried out by the planes at different times but neither search proved successful.