MINOR OPERATIONS
68 Mosquitoes to Nuremberg, 10 to Hagen and 9 each to Erfurt and Stuttgart, 36 R.C.M. sorties, 38 Mosquito patrols. 1 Mosquito lost from the Nuremberg raid.
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FULDA
75 Lancasters of 3 Group were sent on a trial raid to attack the railway centre at Fulda to establish whether G-H signals could reach to this distance, 160 miles from the German frontier. The distance was too great, however, and the bombs were scattered over a wide area. No aircraft lost.
1 Hudson flew a Resistance operation.
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MUNICH
270 Lancasters and 8 Mosquitoes of 5 Group. 1 Lancaster crashed in France.
Bomber Command claimed this as an accurate raid in good visibility with much fresh damage, particularly to railway targets. It has not been possible to obtain a local report. The Munich Stadtarchiv refused to provide any help (the only large city in West Germany to do so) and the waiting time for reports from the Bundesarchiv at Freiburg was more than a year!
Minor Operations: 7 Mosquitoes to Erfurt and 6 to Karlsruhe (a 'spoof' raid), 20 R.C.M. sorties, 20 Mosquito patrols, 31 aircraft on Resistance operations. 1 Intruder Mosquito was lost and 1 Hudson on a Resistance flight crashed behind Allied lines in Belgium.
