DÜSSELDORF
53 Wellingtons and 7 Stirlings; haze resulted in scattered bombing. 1 Wellington lost.
COLOGNE
30 Hampdens and 9 Manchesters; searchlight glare prevented target identification. Cologne reports only a few bombs, 6 people killed and 5 injured, and damage to 17 houses.
Minor Operations: 5 Wellingtons and 1 Stirling to Boulogne, 13 Hampdens minelaying in the Frisians and Kiel Bay. No losses.
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NUREMBERG
80 aircraft - 58 Wellingtons, 13 Whitleys, 5 Halifaxes, 4 Stirlings - were dispatched but conditions en route were very bad with icing and thick cloud. 51 aircraft bombed alternative targets; 14 aircraft claimed to have bombed the Nuremberg area but only one of these, a Whitley, claimed to have identified and bombed its allocated target in Nuremberg. 4 Wellingtons lost.
Nuremberg reports only 3 groups of bombs within the city area, although one of these hit the Siemens factory and destroyed a workshop there; these may have been the bombs of the individual Whitley quoted above. (This was the aircraft of Squadron Leader A. J. D. Snow, of 78 Squadron, which dropped 6 high-explosive bombs. Squadron Leader Snow was killed in a raid on Hamburg on
