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Bomber Command raid - night of 7/8 December 1944

Cologne · Germany

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MINOR OPERATIONS
53 Mosquitoes to Cologne and 7 to Hanau, 3 R.C.M. sorties. No losses.

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URFT DAM
205 Lancasters of 5 Group; 1 aircraft lost. Bombing was affected by 9/10ths cloud and no results were seen.
DUISBURG
163 Lancasters of 3 Group carried out a G-H raid through cloud on the railway yards. 30 Mosquitoes of 8 Group attacked the Meiderich oil plant near Duisburg, probably using the Oboe-leader technique. No aircraft lost.
1 Hudson flew a Resistance operation.

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