The hostile ravens carried out 18 combat air sorties from Saudi airspace and 14 combat air sorties from Kuwaiti airspace.
Occasional sorties to higher speeds were, however, painless enough.
The RAF made 110 sorties by Spitfires & 15 sorties by Hurricanes during the day & shot down 15 German aircraft.
The RCAHMS aerial survey program has now undertaken some 1,100 sorties, producing over 100,000 images.
From these advanced positions the Turks had delivered the first sorties above mentioned and to them they had retired under the pressure of the II.
