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Against Aerial Attack - Commemorating Home Defences of WW1

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One or two friends asked if I would make my Dawn to Dusk Challenge report available digitally.  I've tried to convert it into this blog.  I've made some minor re-arrangements: I have brought the Aeroplane and Crew details to the start, included more photographs and omitted copies of the forms and plogs that had to accompany the report;  otherwise, the text is as it was submitted, warty as it is, with one exception to update a mystery and the layout is more or less the same.  Since that one day, I've learned a great deal more as I've read more.  The exercise has kept on giving.  Against Aerial Attack: Commemorating Home Defences in WW1  Pooley’s Dawn to Dusk Challenge 2017 Contents Aeroplane, Crew Introduction Site List Leg 1: Kent Coast Leg 2: Sheppy to Suffolk Leg 3: Suffolk to The Wash Leg 4: Linconshire Leg 5: Beverley to Berwick Sources and Acknowledgements The Aeroplane