Are they really squadrons, and not planes?
Cause a large airbase should MAYBE have 3 squadrons of a type. All the others maybe ONE squadron. This is particularly true if they were western (eiuropean/american) sized squadrons, not 9 plane Sentai.
As for the reports, they were ordered to report first, but once they realized (almost immediately) that this blew any chance of the spotting sub making an attack, they changed to shoot first, report second (except under specific orders, which even then sometimes got countermanded). Least that's what I recall from Blair.
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