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TONSBERG
107 Lancasters and 12 Mosquitoes of 5 Group attacked the oil refinery in this town in Southern Norway in the last raid flown by heavy bombers. The attack was accurately carried out and the target was severely damaged. A Lancaster of 463 Squadron came down in Sweden, the last of more than 3,300 Lancasters lost in the war; Flying Officer A. Cox and his all-British crew all survived and were interned in Sweden until the end of the war - only a few days away.
Minor Operations: 82 Mosquitoes to Pasing airfield and 18 to Kiel, 9 R.C.M. sorties, 35 Mosquito patrols, 14 Lancasters minelaying in Oslo Fjord (the last minelaying operation of the war), 12 Mosquitoes of 8 Group dropping leaflets over prisoner-of-war camps.
26 April to
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MOSQUITO OPERATIONS
31 Mosquitoes to Husum, 28 each to Eggebek and Grossenbrode and 12 to Neumnster (all airfields in Schleswig-Holstein), 12 Mosquitoes to Kiel, 4 Mosquito Intruders on patrols. No aircraft lost.
29 April to
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