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Bomber Command raid - night of 27/28 December 1940

Bordeaux · France

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FRANCE
75 aircraft to aircraft factory at Bordeaux and to ports and airfields. 1 Blenheim and 1 Wellington lost; 4 aircraft crashed in England.

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PORTS
59 Hampdens, Wellingtons and Whitleys to Rotterdam, Antwerp, Boulogne and Lorient. 1 Hampden and 1 Whitley lost. 7 Hampdens minelaying off Kiel and St-Nazaire.

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