The story
MINOR OPERATIONS
43 Mosquitoes - 30 to Ludwigshafen, 10 to Carpiquet airfield near Caen and 3 to Leverkusen, 1 R.C.M. sortie, 2 Serrate patrols, 43 aircraft minelaying from Kiel to Biscay, 6 aircraft on Resistance operations, 24 O.T.U. sorties. 3 Lancaster minelayers and 1 O.T.U. Wellington lost.
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29 Mosquitoes attacked Berlin; none were lost.
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and flew from Elvington until the end of the war.
OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE
346 Squadron flew 1,371 Halifax sorties and lost 15 aircraft (1.1 percent) in 121 bombing raids.
347 (FRENCH) SQUADRON
SERVICE
Formed as a Halifax squadron in 4 Group on
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