The 23 Sqdn left from Little Snoring at 1944-12-03 at 20:18. Loc or duty BS

On Sunday 03 December 1944, a member of the 23 Sqdn, Flight Sergeant D Darbon, took off from Little Snoring in the United Kingdom. His mission is mentioned elsewhere on WW2 History Europe. You can find the other details of this mission by searching here. Training and cargo flights are not separately mentioned as a mission. The plane left at 20:18.

He flew with a de Havilland Mosquito (type VI, serial PZ456, code YP-).

Campaign report of the USAAF:

(Ninth Air Force): Weather cancels bomber operations.

In Germany, fighters fly defensive patrols and armed reconnaissance, hitting rails and bridges and dive-bomb targets in W Germany including the marshalling yard at Grevenbroich; the 104th Infantry Division is supported as it extends the Inde River, Germany bridgehead beyond Lucherberg, Germany, the US 1st Infantry Division as it seizes Luchem, the US 8th Infantry Division in the Brandenberger Forest-Tiefenbach Creek area, and units of the US XII Corps at Sarre-Union, France as it checks a counterattack.

The 353d Fighter Squadron, 354th Fighter Group, moves from Orconte to Rosieres-en-Haye, France with P-47s.

Campaign report of the RAF:

2/3 December 1944

Hagen: 504 aircraft - 394 Halifaxes, 87 Lancasters, 23 Mosquitos - of Nos 1, 4, 6 and 8 Groups. 1 Halifax and 1 Lancaster crashed in France. The town of Hagen was not too heavily bombed before this raid. The effect upon industrial production was serious. Many firms are recorded as having lost up to 3 months' production. In addition, it was found by the Allies after the war that a factory making U-boat accumulator batteries - of which large numbers were needed by the new types of U-boats - was completely destroyed in this raid.

66 Mosquitos to Giessen, 44 RCM sorties, 62 Mosquito patrols, 10 Stirlings on Resistance operations. 1 Stirling on Resistance work and 1 Intruder Mosquito lost.

Total effort for the night: 686 sorties. 4 aircraft (0.6 per cent) lost.

3 December 1944

183 Lancasters and 4 Mosquitos of Nos 1 and 8 Groups to bomb the small town of Heimbach in the Eifel region. probably in support of an American ground attack in this area. The Master Bomber and the Pathfinders could not identify the target and the Lancasters were ordered to abandon the raid. No aircraft lost.

1 Hudson flew a Resistance operation.

3/4 December 1944

11 Oboe Mosquitos bombed a steelworks at Hallendorf without loss.

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