MINOR OPERATIONS
46 Mosquitoes to Hamburg, 6 each to Aschaffenburg and Heilbronn and 5 to Sterkrade, 1 R.C.M. sortie, 20 Mosquito patrols, 14 aircraft on Resistance operations. 1 Mosquito of 100 Group lost.
Hans Brunswig's history of raids on Hamburg describes an incident in the raid by 'die berchtigten Mosquitos' - 'the notorious Mosquitoes'. Hamburg had a huge, above-ground multi-storey concrete air-raid shelter close to the centre of the city. When the Flak battery situated on top of the bunker opened fire and the first bomb fell near by, the crowd of people waiting to enter the bunker panicked; 7 people were trampled to death and further deaths were caused by the collapse of some scaffolding in the shelter, and then even more by bomb splinters. Total casualties at this place were 30 dead and 75 injured. 73 other people were killed in the city by the Mosquito raid that night and more than 2,000 were bombed out. Mosquitoes carried out dozens of raids similar to this in the last year of the war; the results of this raid just happened to be available.
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MINOR OPERATIONS
2 Liberators and 1 Wellington on signals investigation patrols, 6 Hudsons on Resistance operations, 73 Halifaxes on petrol-carrying flights. No aircraft lost.
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MINOR OPERATIONS
48 Mosquitoes to Brunswick, 8 each to Heilbronn and Krefeld and 6 each to Dortmund and Koblenz, 2 R.C.M. sorties. No aircraft lost.
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and flew from Witchford and Wratting Common until the end of the war.
OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE
195 Squadron flew 1,384 Lancaster sorties and lost 14 aircraft (1.0 percent) in 87 bombing raids. A small number of further sorties were flown by squadron crews using 115 Squadron Lancasters in the first three weeks of October 1944 and some casualties were suffered, but it is not possible to separate these from 115 Squadron's statistics.
196 SQUADRON
SERVICE
Formed on
