PB472

Lancaster Mk. I

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KIEL

Fg Off E.A. Cartwright

Target: German Navy dockyards and installations Load: 1x 4000lb 'Cookie' and 108x 30lb and 1170x 4lb incendiaries Enemy Me-210 seen but not engaged

STETTIN

Fg Off E.A. Cartwright

Target: Port area Load: 1x 4000lb ‘Cookie’, 60x 30lb and 660x 4lb incendiaries Forced to abandon the operation and return early when South-East of Sweden due to failure of the starboard inner engine 'Second Dickie' trip for Fg Off I Thompson

AGENVILLE

Fg Off E.A. Cartwright

Target: V1 'flying bomb' supply site Load: 13x 1000lb and 4x 500lb bombs Hit by flak and failure of the port inner engine Spitfire escort

EINDHOVEN

Fg Off E.A. Cartwright

Target: Luftwaffe-occupied aerodrome Load: 13x 1000lb and 4x 500lb bombs Given Spitfire escort

LE HAVRE

Fg Off E.A. Cartwright

Target: Enemy strongpoints Load: 13x 1000lb and 4x 500lb bombs Hit by flak

LE HAVRE

Fg Off E.A. Cartwright

Target: Enemy strongpoints Load: 13x 1000lb and 4x 500lb bombs Hit by flak in the starboard mainplane

NEUSS

Plt Off K.A. Moore

Target: Marshalling yards. Hammond diary: “12x 1000lb & 4x 500lb. Marshalling yards at suburb called Neuss. Very heavy flak, taking toll of 56 planes. See few going down. First taste of searchlights. Bombing very satisfactory and flames visible for an hour after leaving the target. Fighter attack (Me110 over Wash, but no casualties). Harrigan, Morley, Jones, Tweddle and a new crew (1st op) fail to return. 2 rums in the mess and decide that the NAAFI is perhaps the best mob to join after all”.

CALAIS

Plt Off K.A. Moore

Target: Enemy strongpoints. Aircraft hit by flak, but no crew reported injured. Hammond diary: “ D2 now our ‘private’ kite. Bags of light flak and we are holed in 16 places from 2 salvos. Target was heavy gun positions facing 1st Army. Load 13x 1000 and 4x 500lb”.

DUISBURG

Fg Off D.E. Till

Operation HURRICANE – 3 aircraft detailed to attack August Thyssen Steelworks (C2, G2, M2), rest detailed to attack 4 APs (mines and coke ovens) in the Hamborn district (19 a/c) Loads: C2,G2,M2: 13x 1000lb, 4x500lb bombs A2, I2, N2, T2, V2: 1x 4000lb ‘Cookie’ and 2,212x 4lb incendiaries All other aircraft: 1x 4000lb ‘Cookie’, 108x 30lb & 1170x 4lb incendiaries. Till crew unable to identify Aiming Point so bombed the Thyssen works as an alternative. Derek Till; 'Shortly after this, we were part of a force of several hundred Lancasters that attacked Duisburg in the Ruhr in daylight, targeting the munitions factories. This was I think the first significant daylight penetration of Germany by a large force from Bomber Command. We were instructed to tuck in as best we could behind the leading aircraft, which were flying in two , three-member "V" formations, one above the other. None of us had experience in formation flying and so this was a bit of a joke. We called this loose aggregation of aircraft a "gaggle". The raid seemed to go as planned and there was no serious resistance. We got back to base in the early afternoon, having been woken about 3 a.m. for a dawn takeoff. After the usual debriefing, we went to our huts to sleep, only to be rudely awakened in the late afternoon for a night raid on the same target. At the briefing we learned that the U.S. Air Force had also bombed the same target in the aftemoon, and so between the three raids, Duisburg with its munitions factories was pretty much destroyed.'

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