The story
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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WATTEN
After standing by for 3 days waiting for cloud over the Pas de Calais to clear, 19 Lancasters and 2 Mosquitoes of 617 Squadron, with 9 Mosquitoes of 8 Group providing preliminary marking, attacked the flying-bomb store, but the conditions were too difficult for accurate marking and the nearest Tallboy bomb was 50 yards from the concrete store.
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