10 Wellingtons to docks at Le Havre and Boulogne. The weather was bad and only 3 reported bombing these targets; fires were seen at Le Havre. No losses.
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1 Blenheim to Haamstede airfield turned back.
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GERMANY, ITALY, OCCUPIED COUNTRIES
97 aircraft to many targets. 2 Whitleys and 1 Hampden were lost. Hamburg, target for approximately 10 Wellingtons, reports 15 fires and casualties of 7 killed, 32 injured and 236 bombed out, some only temporarily.
8 Hampdens minelaying off the island of Rgen in the Baltic; 1 aircraft lost.
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; transferred to 8 Group in August 1942 and served as a Pathfinder squadron for the remainder of the war. Equipped with Halifaxes and Lancasters; based at Leeming and Linton-on-Ouse in 4 Group, and at Graveley in 8 Group.
OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE
Raids Flown
4
Group Halifaxes - 109 bombing, 6 leaflet
8
Group Halifaxes - 146 bombing, 5 minelaying
8
Group Lancasters - 202 bombing
Total - 457 bombing, 6 leaflet, 5 minelaying = 468 raids
Sorties and Losses
4
Group Halifaxes - 717 sorties, 35 aircraft lost (4.9 percent)
8
Group Halifaxes - 1,776 sorties, 65 aircraft lost (3.7 percent)
8
Group Lancasters - 2,216 sorties, 27 aircraft lost (1.2 percent)
Total - 4,709 sorties, 127 aircraft lost (2.7 percent)
6 Lancasters were destroyed in crashes.
POINTS OF INTEREST
Introduced the Halifax to operational service.
An original Pathfinder squadron and suffered 8 Group's first operational loss, in the group's first raid to Flensburg on
