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Bomber Command raid - night of 4/5 September 1944

Karlsruhe · Germany

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MINOR OPERATIONS
43 Mosquitoes to Karlsruhe and 14 to Steenwijk airfield, 6 Serrate patrols. No losses.

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LE HAVRE
348 aircraft - 313 Lancasters, 30 Mosquitoes, 5 Stirlings - 1, 3 and 8 Groups carried out the first of a series of heavy raids on the German positions around Le Havre which were still holding out after being bypassed by the Allied advance. This was an accurate raid in good visibility. No aircraft lost.
BREST
60 Lancasters and 6 Mosquitoes of 5 Group bombed gun positions outside Brest, whose garrison was also still holding out. No aircraft lost.

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MINOR OPERATIONS
43 Mosquitoes to Hannover and 12 to Steenwijk, 8 R.C.M. sorties, 23 Mosquito patrols, 19 aircraft on Resistance operations. No aircraft lost.

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