‘Planes going out in hundreds
between 7 and 8. Rain began about one,
just as I got to the Post, and kept on all afternoon. Lot of
bombers went out, and one Liberator, marked 4NK, circled round for 2 hours,
passing low right over the Post a dozen times.
We thought he was in trouble, and reported, but Centre apparently made
enquiries and were satisfied that there was nothing the matter with it. It flew at less than a thousand feet, and we
could see the crew at their places quite clearly.
“Diver” [V1 flying bomb] was on most of the time
and there was an alarm about 4. We could
hear them talking about “divers” over S. Essex
but nothing came this way. When they
travel in the clouds there is no possible means of defence against them.
Weather cleared, and when I got
off at 5 went to Lt. Rivers. Pattinson,
the fruit farmer was there with an extraordinary pretty girl there called
Jacquetta Gordon-Fox, who is in the Ministry of Information in London
Back to Woodside at 10.30, lovely
calm evening, yet felt unusually nervous.
No ‘planes before midnight.
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