MINOR OPERATIONS
17 Mosquitoes to DÜSSELDORF, 2 Serrate patrols, 3 O.T.U. sorties. No aircraft lost. A Mosquito of 692 Squadron on the DÜSSELDORF raid was the first Mosquito to drop a 4,000-lb bomb. The Mosquitoes of the Light Night Striking Force regularly carried such heavy bombs during the remaining months of the war to targets as far distant as Berlin.
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SCHWEINFURT
734 aircraft - 554 Lancasters, 169 Halifaxes, 11 Mosquitoes - carried out the first Bomber Command raid on this target, home of Germany's main ball-bearing factories. 266 American B-17s had raided the factories the previous day.
34. Crashed Halifax in Schweinfurt; a burning gas main has consumed most of the fuselage. This is probably one of the seven Halifaxes lost on the
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1409 (METEOROLOGICAL) FLIGHT
SERVICE
Formed at Oakington on
