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Bomber Command raid - night of 21/22 June 1943

Dortmund · Germany

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on a raid to Krefeld.
21 (a and b). The collection and identification of the dead in Dortmund during the Battle of the Ruhr.
Sergeant (later Flight Lieutenant) Sloan came back to Bomber Command as a Halifax pilot with 158 Squadron and flew on operations from January 1945 until the end of the war. In the post-war years he served with the King's Flight.
15 O.T.U. aircraft carried out leaflet flights to France. 1 Wellington lost.

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