A major attack took place on the Bristol Aeroplane Company’s works at Filton, causing heavy damage and many casualties. A diversionary raid was launched against the Royal Navy’s Portland base. No 601 Squadron engaged a force of bombers and fighters near Plymouth.

No 152 Squadron lost two pilots killed in separate actions. Sergeant Ken Holland, from Sydney, New South Wales, was 20. He was cremated at Weymouth and his guardian had a memorial stone placed near the site of the crash. This was later moved a short distance to St Lawrence Church, Woolverton, Somerset.

Sergeant Bill Silver, aged 27, was seen by another pilot being jumped by a Bf 109. The Spitfire dived vertically into the sea. Bill Silver was interred in Milton Road Cemetery, Portsmouth. His daughter Joyce was buried in the same grave in 1965, having died aged 26.