AIRFIELDS, GERMANY
102 Blenheims, Hampdens and Wellingtons to 5 targets in Germany, to airfields in Holland, Belgium and France, and minelaying. No losses.
Although no aircraft was detailed to attack Brunswick, this city recorded its first raid of the war, with 4 Germans and 3 foreign workers killed. This is the first report of foreigners being killed in air raids. They were the forerunners of more than 5 million people - prisoners of war or civilians - who were brought to work in Germany under varying degrees of force during the war and subjected to all the hazards of Allied bombing of German cities. Their danger was more acute than that of German civilians because they were usually allocated poorer air-raid shelters. It is not known how many foreigners were killed in air raids but the number must be considerable; many individual reports from German cities give examples in raids later in these diaries. The Brunswick records, for example, show that, of 2,905 people killed in the city by R.A.F. and U.S.A.A.F. bombing in 40 wartime raids, 1,286 (44.3 percent) were foreigners; but this was probably an extreme example.
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6 Blenheims on an uneventful sea sweep.
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GERMANY, ITALYZ
20 Whitleys to Rheinfelden, Waldshut and Freiburg, 4 Whitleys to Turin. No losses.
