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The Battery diary records the following:
22 to 27 November 1939 - Consolidation of positions - All guns ready for action.
The War Illustrated continued to give an upbeat assessment of the actions of the British Foces in France, cluding the RAF, which belies what was to happen in May 1940. It says:
"A complete photographic map of the Siegried Line has been made. Many photographs taken from only a few hundred feet above the Line, go to the composition this map. A few days ago our aircraft, taking off from an aerodrome in France, covered the whole length of Germany from the Saar to the North Sea, flew on to Heligoland, all without serious interruptions, and then made safe landings home in England. All accounts speak highly of the navigating skill of the pilots and crews as of their determinatioon."
The airfields defended by the 157th HAA Battery were behind the Siegfried Line and so it can be concluded that these palnes would have taken off from the airfields in the Reims / Epernay region.
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