MINOR OPERATIONS
21 Mosquitoes - 9 to Berlin, 8 to DÜSSELDORF and 4 to Aachen, 4 R.C.M. sorties, 3 Serrate patrols, 19 Stirlings minelaying off Dutch and French coasts, 6 O.T.U. sorties. 1 R.C.M. Wellington lost.
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MINOR OPERATIONS
20 Lancasters of 5 Group -14 from 617 Squadron - bombed an explosives factory at Angoulme; 25 Mosquitoes attacked 5 targets in Germany, the largest raid being by 12 aircraft to Munich, and 9 aircraft flew on Resistance operations. No aircraft lost.
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and flew Lancasters from Downham Market until the end of the war.
OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE
635 Squadron flew 2,225 Lancaster sorties and lost 34 aircraft (1.5 percent) in 189 raids. 7 further Lancasters were destroyed in crashes.
POINTS OF INTEREST
Victoria Cross: Squadron Leader I. W. Bazalgette, D.F.C., posthumously, Trossy-St-Maxim flying-bomb site,