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MINOR OPERATIONS
21 Mosquitoes to Cologne, Gelsenkirchen and Krefeld, 8 O.T.U. Wellingtons on leaflet flights to France. No losses.
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LUDWIGSHAFEN
66 Lancasters and 17 Halifaxes of 8 Group on a purely H2S blind-bombing raid without any target indicators being dropped. Few details are available about the results of the bombing but it is believed that the attack was accurate and the I.G. Farben factory was hit. Because of misleading instructions broadcast from England to the German night-fighter pilots, most of the fighter force landed early and only 1 Lancaster was lost.
Minor Operations: 21 Mosquitoes to Berlin, Bochum, Bonn and Duisburg, 4 O.T.U. sorties. No losses.
Operational Statistics, 3/4 August to
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