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. These sorties and losses, which cannot be included in the nightly diary entries or in the periodic operational statistics until January 1944, have been added into the final table at the end of the war.
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MINOR OPERATIONS
Mosquitoes: 16 to Duisburg, 2 to Bristillerie and 1 each to Dortmund and Solingen, 57 aircraft minelaying off Biscay ports, 10 O.T.U. sorties. No losses.
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MINOR OPERATIONS
6 Mosquitoes to Krefeld and 5 to Duisburg, 1 aircraft on a Resistance operation, 28 O.T.U. sorties. The Resistance operation aircraft - a 138 Squadron Halifax - crashed in England soon after taking off, killing all 10 men on board, probably 7 crew and 3 passengers.
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and 1,364 sorties and 3 aircraft lost by 1409 (Meteorological) Flight since
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