Leaflet Raids
10 Whitleys - 3 from 51 Squadron and 7 from 58 Squadron - carried 54 million leaflets to Hamburg, Bremen and 9 cities in the Ruhr. There were no losses but 3 aircraft were forced to land at airfields in France.
1 The first Bomber Command sortie of the war. Corporal Vincent Arrowsmith was dead before the end of the month, lost on a reconnaissance flight on 24 September.
