5 Oboe Mosquitoes to Cologne and 5 to Duisburg. No losses.
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Minor Operations
8 Lancasters of 617 Squadron set out with the new 12,000-lb bomb (not the 12,000-lb Tallboy 'earthquake' bomb developed later) to attack the banks of the Dortmund-Ems Canal near Ladbergen. While the force was over the North Sea, however, a weather reconnaissance Mosquito reported that there was fog in the target area and the Lancasters were recalled. The aircraft of Flight Lieutenant D. J. H. Maltby, one of the original members of the squadron that had attacked the Ruhr dams, crashed into the sea and the crew were all killed. Maltby's body was washed ashore and is buried at Wickhambreux, near Canterbury in Kent; the names of the other 6 crew members are on the Runnymede Memorial for the Missing.
8 Mosquitoes made a nuisance raid on Berlin. 1 aircraft lost.
