The story
RAILWAYS
317 aircraft - 196 Lancasters, 90 Halifaxes, 19 Mosquitoes, 12 Stirlings - of 1, 3, 4 and 8 Groups attacked railway targets at Aulnoye, Montdidier and St-Martin-l'Hortier. 1 Lancaster was lost on the Montdidier raid. All targets were covered by cloud and the Master Bombers at Aulnoye and Montdidier ordered their forces to stop bombing after only 7 and 12 aircraft had bombed respectively. 87 aircraft of 4 Group bombed their target at St-Martin-l'Hortier but no results were seen.
FLYING-BOMB SITE
114 aircraft - 90 Halifaxes, 19 Lancasters, 5 Mosquitoes - of 6 and 8 Groups bombed a site at Oisemont, near Abbeville. No results were observed and no aircraft were lost.
Minor Operations: 30 Mosquitoes to Berlin and 4 to the Scholven/Buer oil plant, 10 R.C.M. sorties, 54 Mosquitoes on Serrate, Intruder and flying bomb patrols, 8 Stirlings and 4 Halifaxes minelaying in the Channel Islands, 12 Halifaxes on Resistance operations. No aircraft lost.
Total effort for the night: 553 sorties, 1 aircraft (0.2 percent) lost.
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Watten
In a period of bad flying weather, only 10 Mosquitoes could be sent to attack a large concrete flying-bomb storage building in the woods at Watten, near St-Omer. 9 aircraft bombed but no details of the results are available. No aircraft lost.
5 Halifaxes and 2 Stirlings laid mines off Brest and St-Malo.
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