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Bomber Command raid - 21 October 1942

Leeuwarden · Netherlands

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3 Mosquitoes to Germany but only 2 were able to bomb targets in Holland, a factory at Hengelo and the airfield at Leeuwarden. No losses.

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7 Stirlings and 7 Wellingtons were dispatched to lay mines off Denmark and in the Frisians but the Wellingtons were recalled. 1 Stirling lost.

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