what happened next: “On October
9, 1943, our squadron took off
at 1030 with nine planes to cover
a convoy of one cruiser and four
destroyers. Two planes were forced
to return to base because of engine
trouble shortly after take-off,
leaving seven... a four-ship flight
led by the undersigned and a three-
ship flight led by Lt Blue.
“We sighted the convoy at
1200hrs, approximately 15 miles
east of Cape Valoca on the island
of Scarpanto. The convoy had
been attacked and the cruiser was
smoking from the stern. During
our first orbit around the convoy,
while flying a southwesterly course
at 8,000ft, Lt Sprinkle called out
‘bogeys at one o’clock, slightly
high, approaching the convoy from
the northwest’.
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