Another Blenheim IV unit involved in the Battle of France and Operation 'Dynamo' was No 53 Squadron, tasked with the reconnaissance role. Among its pilots was Alastair Panton, later to be awarded the DFC and to become an air commodore. He wrote an outstanding personal memoir of his time on 53 during the summer of 1940, Six Weeks of Blenheim Summer, which - edited by his daughter, Victoria Panton Bacon - has just been published in a new edition by Penguin. This extract covers the Dunkirk period, and begins on 29 May.
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