BREMEN
67 aircraft - 57 Wellingtons, 6 Stirlings, 4 Halifaxes. Cloud and haze were encountered but good fires were claimed. 1 Wellington lost.
COLOGNE
33 Whitleys and 9 Wellingtons; haze covered the target. Cologne records only 20 incendiary bombs in the city and no casualties. 1 Wellington lost.
DUISBURG
39 Hampdens; only 18 claimed to have bombed Duisburg. 2 aircraft lost.
Minor Operations: 6 Wellingtons to Cherbourg, 7 O.T.U. sorties. No losses.
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12 Blenheims on a Circus operation to Hazebrouck. 1 Blenheim lost.
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ESSEN
61 Wellingtons and 29 Whitleys to Essen, attacking the Krupps armaments works and railway targets. 2 Wellingtons and 2 Whitleys lost.
Returning crews reported that bombing was difficult because of thick cloud. Essen reports only light housing damage with 2 people injured, but many bombs fell in the towns of Bochum, Dortmund, Duisburg, Hagen and Wuppertal as well as in other places.
BREMEN
39 Hampdens and 29 Wellingtons. Good bombing was claimed despite cloud and haze. 2 Wellingtons and 1 Hampden lost.
5 Wellingtons were sent to bomb Gilze-Rijen airfield. No losses.
