KARLSRUHE
200 aircraft of 5 types with 4 Group Halifaxes now back on major operations. 8 aircraft - 4 Wellingtons, 2 Lancasters, 1 Halifax, 1 Stirling - lost, 4.0 percent of the force.
The Pathfinders were accurate and this was a successful raid. An estimated 200 fires were seen burning at the same time. Reconnaissance photographs showed much residential and some industrial damage. A very short report from Karlsruhe says only that 73 people were killed and that 3 public buildings in the city centre were hit.
3 aircraft minelaying in the Frisians without loss.
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EMDEN
11 aircraft - 7 Wellingtons, 3 Stirlings, 1 Halifax - dispatched but could only bomb through cloud on dead-reckoning positions. 2 Wellingtons lost.
