Some fighter presence in Scotland was necessary to defend various military targets there, such as the Home Fleet bases of Scapa Flow and the Cromarty Firth, Loch Erribol etc. It was also important to defend Glasgow and Edinburgh. I remember reading one odd account of a squadron operating a specially adapted high-altitude and long range variant of the Spitfire being based somewhere in the Western Isles. They were there to shoot down Luftwaffe reconnaissance aircraft which tried to take photographs of the home fleet at anchor, and they did get some trade occasionally.
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