DUISBURG
3 Mosquitoes of the Pathfinders, now officially designated as 8 Group, and 38 Lancasters of 5 Group. (It can be assumed that all Mosquitoes on night-bombing operations were from 8 Group until otherwise stated and, in other operations, the terms '8 Group' and 'Pathfinders' will both be used; they are quite interchangeable.) 3 Lancasters were lost. No report is available from Duisburg.
Minor Operations: 73 aircraft minelaying off the Danish and German coasts, 2 O.T.U. sorties. 2 minelaying Lancasters were lost.
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12 Venturas dispatched to Ijmuiden steelworks, 12 Bostons to Abbeville airfields and 7 Mosquitoes to railway targets at Mons and Rouen. The Abbeville force was recalled but all other targets were bombed. 1 Mosquito lost.
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ESSEN
2 Pathfinder Mosquitoes and 50 Lancasters of 5 Group. 3 Lancasters lost.
Essen reports concentrated bombing in or near the centre with 127 buildings destroyed or seriously damaged and 28 people killed.
MINELAYING
121 aircraft - 78 Halifaxes, 41 Wellingtons, 2 Stirlings - on a large minelaying operation in the Frisians, the German Bight and the Kattegat. 97 aircraft reported laying mines in the designated areas. 4 Halifaxes lost.
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; five other members of this crew are also buried here.
54. The Berlin War Cemetery, in which more than 80 percent of the graves are those of Bomber Command men, many lost in the costly Battle of Berlin.
The graves in the foreground belong to Sergeant George Jeffrey, Sergeant Harry Coffey (Canadian) and Flight Sergeant Alan Drake, killed when their Lancaster of 630 Squadron was shot down on the Nuremberg raid of
