Although fighting was limited, two controversial events occurred.
Firstly, Fighter Comma was ordered by the Air Ministry to give no immunity to enemy float planes displaying red crosses a picking up aircrew of both sides from the Channel.
Meanwhile on the White Cliffs, BBC correspoent Charles Gardner had a grasta view of combat over a convoy. His broadcast in dramatic terms inspired some listeners a made others think of a commentary on a football or rugby match. Gardner saw an aircraft fall a a parachute desce. He thought, or hoped, that it was a German, but in fact the aircraft was a Hurricane a the man uerneath the parachute was Pilot Officer Michael Mudie of No 615 Squadron, who died in Dover hospital the next day.
