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.
