Bomber Command raid - night of 11/12 March 1945

MINOR OPERATIONS
90 Mosquitoes to Berlin and 6 each to Brunswick, Hannover and Magdeburg, 4 Mosquito patrols, 22 Lancasters minelaying in the Kattegat and off Oslo. No aircraft lost.

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DORTMUND
1,108 aircraft - 748 Lancasters, 292 Halifaxes, 68 Mosquitoes. This was another new record to a single target, a record which would stand to the end of the war. 2 Lancasters lost.
Another record tonnage of bombs - 4,851 - was dropped through cloud on to this unfortunate city. The only details available from Dortmund state that the attack fell mainly in the centre and south of the city. A British team which investigated the effects of bombing in Dortmund after the war says that, 'The final raid … stopped production so effectively that it would have been many months before any substantial recovery could have occurred.'

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MINOR OPERATIONS
81 Mosquitoes to Berlin and 3 each to Halle, Magdeburg and Stendal, 2 R.C.M. sorties, 16 Lancasters and 3 Halifaxes minelaying in the Kattegat. 3 Lancaster minelayers lost.

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