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Bomber Command raid - night of 17/18 January 1945

Magdeburg · Germany

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MINOR OPERATIONS
72 Mosquitoes to Magdeburg, 8 to Ruthen oil-storage depot and 3 each to Cologne, Frankfurt, Koblenz and Mannheim, 33 R.C.M. sorties, 13 Mosquito patrols. No aircraft lost.

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MOSQUITO OPERATIONS
56 Mosquitoes to Sterkrade oil refinery, 12 each, on H2S trials, to DÜSSELDORF, Kassel and Koblenz and 7 to Ruthen oil depot. 1 Mosquito from the Sterkrade raid crashed in Belgium.

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