MINOR OPERATIONS
Mosquitoes: 15 to Berlin, 6 to Duisburg, 1 to Aachen and 1 to Sottevaast, 10 Halifaxes minelaying off Brest, 76 aircraft on Resistance operations. 15 Lancasters of 617 Squadron were unable to locate their target, the La Ricamerie needle-bearing factory near Lyons, because of cloud, and returned without bombing. No aircraft lost.
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MINOR OPERATIONS
9 Mosquitoes to Duisburg and 1 to Aachen, 4 R.C.M. sorties, 4 Serrate patrols, 49 Stirlings and 17 Halifaxes on Resistance operations. 1 aircraft, believed to be a Halifax, was lost on one of the Resistance flights.
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until the end of the war; based at Little Snoring.
OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE
515 Squadron flew 1,366 Mosquito sorties and lost 21 aircraft (1.5 percent) in 239 Serrate/Intruder and 9 escort operations. The squadron claimed 11 German aircraft destroyed in the air, 18 on the ground and 5 more damaged on the ground.
POINTS OF INTEREST
Suffered the most losses and the highest percentage loss in 100 Group Mosquito squadrons.
550 SQUADRON
SERVICE
Formed in 1 Group on
