PARIS/GENNEVILLIERS
77 aircraft - 31 Wellingtons, 20 Halifaxes, 14 Lancasters, 9 Stirlings, 3 Hampdens - to the Gnome & Rh ne factory. 4 Wellingtons and 1 Halifax lost.
Later photographic cover showed little or no damage to the factory. A local report says that 38 houses were destroyed and 49 damaged, with 34 French people being killed and 167 injured.
Minor Operations: 31 aircraft to Cherbourg, 17 aircraft to Dieppe, 21 aircraft minelaying in the Frisians and off Copenhagen. 3 aircraft on leaflet flights to France. 1 Stirling minelayer lost.
Operational Statistics, 22/23 February to
