July 3rd 1940

First real daylight raid warnings - two; early in the morning and late in the afternoon. Nothing happened however - they were only "yellows" anyway. Volunteered with Henderson for a posting to P.D.U on learning that some good trainees were required for recommendation for that job, put up some wangles for this posting but heard this evening that 3 trainees are going - don't know whether there any more vacancies now. Rumour now points to our re-equipping with Blenheims of course everybody hopes for "Defiants" but!

July 2nd 1940

Rumoured that some paratroopers were dropped pretty near yesterday - one was caught apparently and one or two are still at large, somewhere near Huntercombe. A few days before this there was a scare from Waddington that eight had seen to drop during the late afternoon, but no one could trace anything of them and general opinion seemed to be "just a panic by a farmer and his boy".