COLOGNE
49 Wellingtons and 42 Hampdens to railway targets but Cologne reports only 3 or 4 bomb loads in the city with minor damage, 1 person killed and 2 injured. 1 Hampden lost.
DÜSSELDORF
31 Whitleys and 28 Wellingtons to railway targets but visibility was poor and bombing was scattered. No aircraft lost.
HANNOVER
16 aircraft; a large fire was started. No losses.
Minor Operations: 10 Wellingtons and 2 Whitleys to Dunkirk, 4 Hampdens minelaying in the Frisians, 1 O.T.U. sortie. The 2 Whitley freshmen crews sent to Dunkirk were both lost.
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25 Blenheims on coastal sweeps off Holland and Germany. Several ships were attacked including a trawler well out to sea and suspected of being a radio warning ship. One of the Blenheims attacking this ship was so low that it hit the trawler's mast and crashed into the sea. 3 Blenheims were lost on this day.
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COLOGNE
105 aircraft - 47 Hampdens, 39 Whitleys, 16 Wellingtons, 3 Halifaxes - but again bombing was poor with only 55 high-explosive bombs and 300 incendiaries recorded in Cologne, causing scattered damage, but 19 people were killed and 17 injured. 2 Whitleys and 1 Wellington lost.
DÜSSELDORF
65 Wellingtons and 7 Stirlings, haze prevented target identification. 58 aircraft claimed to have bombed DÜSSELDORF but the records show only 2 heavy bombs in the southern suburb of Wersten, which destroyed several houses, killing 4 people and injuring 23. A few bombs were reported in 4 other towns around DÜSSELDORF. No aircraft lost.
9. Thirty Wellingtons dispatched by 57 and 75 (New Zealand) Squadrons at Feltwell. This was a typical effort by 3 Group, which provided so much of the early strength of Bomber Command. The target for twenty-eight of these aircraft was DÜSSELDORF; the diary entry shows their bombing results. Two of the aircraft, flown by 'freshman' crews, bombed Boulogne. All the Wellingtons returned safely. The airfields shown on the bottom left of the board are the diversion airfields allocated to the Feltwell aircraft in the event of bad weather on their return.
DUISBURG
39 Wellingtons; 1 lost.
BOULOGNE
7 Wellingtons; none lost.
Total effort for the night: 223 sorties, 4 aircraft (1.8 percent) lost.
