- RAF Sullom Voe during the Second World War -
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RAF Sullom Voe
4th September 1939 Duty instructions
7th September 1939 Escort duty
8th September 1939 Suspicious object bombed
10th September 1939 U-Boat sighted
16th September 1939 Sunderlands returned
26th September 1939 U-Boat bombed
4th November 1939 Search
6th November 1939 Relocated
10th November 1939 Enemy recce
1st December 1939 U-Boat bombed at Orkney
18th December 1939 Relief aircraft
1st January 1940 Bomb attack
9th January 1940 Search
10th January 1940 Patrol and escort duties
12th January 1940 Engine change
14th January 1940 Replacement aircraft
19th January 1940 Snow and Ice
21st January 1940 Battleships sighted
22nd February 1940 Flying boat destroyed
24th January 1940 Submarine hunt
27th January 1940 Patrol
28th January 1940 Sullom Voe bombed
6th February 1940 Personnel moved to Shetland
9th February 1940 U-boat not found
12th February 1940 Convoy escort
13th February 1940 Search and Rescue
14th February 1940 Varied duties
16th February 1940 Weather good
24th February 1940 Convoy escort
1st April 1940 Training
2nd April 1940 Convoy bombed
3rd April 1940 Sunderlands
4th April 1940 anti-submarine patrol
11th April 1940 special search
13th April 1940
24th May 1940 Departure from Invergordon
31st May 1940 Arrived at Sullom Voe
10th June 1940 Escort
18th June 1940 Dispositions
21st June 1940
25th June 1940 Mystery ships
26th June 1940 Dispositions
1st July 1940 Patrols
6th July 1940 Enemy aircraft
9th July 1940 Sunderland missing on patrol
28th July 1940 Lifeboats found
2nd August 1940 Sunderland crew injured
18th August 1940 New C.O.
20th September 1940 Survey of Narvik
23rd September 1940 Wreckage
24th September 1940 Patrol
25th September 1940 Night flying
28th September 1940 Convoy escort
29th September 1940 floating mine
30th September 1940 convoys
17th February 1943 New anti-submarine squadron formed
7th March 1943 Uneventful first operation
26th March 1943 Submarine attacked
2nd April 1943 Fully operational
16th April 1943 Flight to Russia
22nd April 1943 Catalina crashed on Faeroe Islands
22nd April 1943 U-Boat attacked
29th April 1943 Fruitless search for U-Boat
3rd May 1943 Minelaying abandoned
15th May 1943 Convoy escort duty
20th May 1943 U-Boat escaped after attack
27th May 1943 Flight to Russia
30th May 1943 U-Boat attacked
7th June 1943 Ice survey
12th June 1943 Life raft sighted
13th June 1943 ASR Search
14th June 1943 Airmen rescued from Atlantic
15th June 1943 ASR resumed
16th June 1943 More dinghies sighted
7th July 1943 Catalina in dog fight over Atlantic
7th July 1943 Flight to Norway
11th July 1943 Detachment to Reykjavik
2nd August 1943 U-Boat escaped
7th September 1943 Flight to Russia
8th September 1943 A week in Russia
22nd September 1943 Flight to Russia
10th October 1943 Catalina ditched
17th of July 1944If you can provide any additional information, please add it here.
Those known to have served at
RAF Sullom Voe
during the Second World War 1939-1945.
- Baker James Michael. LAC
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LAC James Michael Baker
My Dad, James Baker, enlisted before the start of the Second World War. First he was in the RAF and was at West Drayton in June 1939. He later transferred to the Army and was with the Welsh Guards in Italy in 1945.Ian Baker
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