John Hashim's July 1941 diary entries move from plotting practice to a day of gunnery, torpedo firing, and escort work. Kandahar and Jervis conduct a coordinated practice attack, then Kandahar screens Valiant during further exercises. The same sequence records the loss of Defender and other ships on the Tobruk run. Hashim links the danger to dive-bombers supported by fighters and the shortage of friendly air cover. His next entry ends his appointment to Kandahar and sends him to Valiant, bringing personal routine and the wider campaign into the same daily record.
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Kandahar's exercises beside the losses on the Tobruk run
July 1941 diary entries put torpedo training and battleship screening beside the mounting cost of supplying Tobruk without sufficient air cover.