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14 Wellingtons and 5 Lancasters on cloud-cover raids to Essen, Osnabrck and Wilhelmshaven. Only 6 aircraft bombed, through cloud, in the Osnabrck and Wilhelmshaven areas. No aircraft lost.
12 Bostons bombed an airfield near Caen without loss.
10 Venturas in fours and twos carried out low-level raids to Holland. 3 aircraft lost.
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GENOA
72 Lancasters of the Pathfinder Force and 5 Group. 2 Lancasters lost.
The attack was concentrated but most bombs fell in residential areas. No separate report for this raid is available from Genoa.
Minor Operations: 65 aircraft minelaying from Lorient to the Frisians, 4 O.T.U. sorties, 3 Stirling minelayers lost.
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