HAMBURG
123 aircraft of 5 different types. 4 Whitleys lost.
Crews reported that visibility in the target area was bad and only 56 crews claimed to have bombed there. Hamburg reports no major incidents but 14 fires - 7 of them large ones, 1 person killed, 8 injured and 175 bombed out.
BREMEN
40 Wellingtons and 8 Stirlings; the weather was bad and only 13 crews claimed to have found the target. The Bremen diary has no entry for this night. 1 Wellington lost.
Minor Operations: 25 aircraft to Dunkirk, 7 to Boulogne, 17 Hampdens and 1 Manchester minelaying in the Frisians, the mouth of the Weser and in Kiel Bay, 2 O.T.U. sorties. 1 Halifax lost from the Dunkirk raid.
Total effort for the night: 223 sorties, 6 aircraft (2.7 percent) lost.
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16 Blenheims on raids to airfields in Brittany and on uneventful sweeps off Norway. No losses.
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KIEL
134 aircraft - 72 Wellingtons, 32 Hampdens, 30 Whitleys - to attack harbour targets. 2 Whitleys and 1 Hampden lost.
Only 70 crews reported reaching the target area. Kiel's records state that search-lights could not penetrate thick, low cloud and that aircraft were heard to the east but no bombs fell in Kiel.
Minor Operations: 17 aircraft to Brest, 13 to Le Havre, 5 Hampdens and 2 Manchesters minelaying in Kiel Bay, 4 Hampdens made a night shipping patrol off the Frisians and bombed a convoy without scoring hits, 3 O.T.U. sorties. 1 Hampden from the shipping patrol was lost.
