Minor Operations
4 Mosquitoes to Homberg and Scholven/Buer, 4 Serrate patrols over Denmark, 6 Stirlings minelaying off Brest, 3 Halifaxes on Resistance operations. No aircraft lost.
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Minor Operations
19 Lancasters of 8 Group attacked the flying-bomb site at St-Philibert-Ferme through thick cloud and 4 Mosquitoes flew Ranger patrols to Northern Germany and Denmark. No aircraft lost.
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RAILWAYS
242 Lancasters and 11 Mosquitoes of 1, 5 and 8 Groups to attack the railway yards at Revigny and Villeneuve. The raid on Villeneuve was carried out and the railways were hit, though much of the bombing fell to the east of the target. The raid to Revigny was abandoned because the railway yards could not be identified. 7 Lancasters lost from the Revigny raid.
FLYING-BOMB SITES
115 aircraft - 101 Halifaxes, 10 Mosquitoes, 4 Lancasters - of 4, 6 and 8 Groups attacked launching sites at Anderbelck and Les Landes. Anderbelck was accurately bombed in good visibility but the bombing at Les Landes was through 10/10ths cloud.
SUPPORT AND MINOR OPERATIONS
132 aircraft on a diversionary sweep over the North Sea, 42 Mosquitoes to Hannover, 35 R.C.M. sorties, 56 Mosquito patrols, 8 Stirlings minelaying off Biscay ports. 1 Mosquito of 100 Group lost.
Total effort for the night: 641 sorties, 8 aircraft (1.3 percent) lost.
