Talk:Operation Donnerkeil

Oxspring and Beaumont patrol
Why no mention of the follow-up "Jim Crow" Spitfire patrol by No. 91 Squadron based at Hawinge, flown by Squadron Leader Robert Oxspring personally, along with his wingman Seargeant Beaumont? At 1035, after having discovered the ships within a few minutes of the other patrol mentioned in the article, Oxspring broke radio silence and reported battle cruisers and escort off Le Touquet heading for Dover. But the British didn't act on Oxspring's report and instead waited for him to land. Oxspring even tried to personally contact Air Vice-Marshal Leigh-Mallory, AOC No. 11 Fighter Group, but he was rebuffed. joepa T 06:53, 7 August 2012 (UTC)


 * The above is according to: joepa T 14:44, 7 August 2012 (UTC)


 * I'm not familiar with that book, but if it's a reliable source then that information could definitely be added to the article. Regards, Nick-D (talk) 08:25, 8 August 2012 (UTC)


 * A year late, sorry. I hadn't noticed the question. He claimed he sighted the ship, he claimed he reported it. Unfortunately there is no chain of evidence for any of this. I looked in the operational records of this Squadron at the National Archives. No mention of this momentous alleged report (operational records pre-1944 are sparse). I have not found any information in sources related to the German side that they intercepted this alleged break of radio silence or indeed that they could have identified the pilot who broke it. I doubt the validity of the story. Dapi89 (talk) 11:15, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

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Tidied some typos, overlapping and repetition, auto-edded and rv dupe wl. Keith-264 (talk) 20:08, 18 October 2022 (UTC)