Martin Baltimore Mk.III side-profile schematic
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January 14, 1942

Bu Amud

The performance of our machines yesterday has definitely ruled our squadron out of operations so there can only be one decision regarding our future fate. But still no official news.
Only three of our machines are serviceable for operations but the Jerries recce. machines don’t reveal that — they only show a number – a large number, too — of aircraft scattered about the aerodrome and so we remain a potential target for the enemy without hope or means of replying. Jerry was in fact overhead at a very early hour this morning and the Tobruk A.A. was again going "great guns" but Jerry passed overhead without "unloading"anywhere that was uncomfortably near for us.

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