The story
MOSQUITO OPERATIONS
Mosquitoes went to bomb the following targets: Hamburg, 52 aircraft; DÜSSELDORF and Wiesbaden, 6 aircraft each; Koblenz, 4 aircraft; Schweinfurt, 2 aircraft. 1 aircraft lost from the Hamburg raid.
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2 Wellingtons and 1 Liberator carried out uneventful signals patrols.
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MOSQUITO OPERATIONS
57 Mosquitoes to Cologne and 4 to Stuttgart. No aircraft lost. A report from Cologne shows that bombs were scattered across the city, causing mostly minor damage. 32 people were killed, however, most of them in an old persons' home which sustained a direct hit.
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