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CHANNEL PORTS, GERMANY
53 Hampdens and Whitleys to ports and railway targets and laying mines (8 aircraft) in the River Gironde. No losses.
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6 Blenheims on an uneventful North Sea sweep.
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CHANNEL PORTS, GERMANY
172 aircraft of all types. Most of the effort was to Channel ports but small raids on German railways and canals, French airfields and minelaying at St-Nazaire. 1 Wellington lost.
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