Whitleys again carried out leaflet raids on the second night of the war and were to continue such operations regularly by night in following months. (The inclusion of a separate diary entry for every one of these flights would be of little practical use, so they have been consolidated into batches.)
The Whitleys operated in this role on 22 nights between 4/5 September and 23/24 December and a total of 113 sorties were flown. On some moonlit nights the Whitleys were ordered to make visual reconnaissance of certain places in Germany, their main task of leaflet dropping becoming a secondary role on those nights. A high proportion of the flights were carried out successfully; it is believed that 105 of the 113 sorties achieved at least part of their allocated tasks.
2 (a and b). The first casualties, after the raid on German warships on
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NORTH SEA SHIPPING SEARCH
17 Wellingtons attacked shipping but no results were seen. 2 Blenheims made photographic reconnaissance flights to Wilhelmshaven. No losses.
