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Bomber Command raid - night of 25/26 January 1944

Calais · France

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FLYING-BOMB SITES
76 aircraft - 56 Stirlings, 12 Lancasters, 8 Mosquitoes - attacked sites in the Pas de Calais and near Cherbourg without loss.
Minor Operations: 14 Mosquitoes to Aachen, 18 O.T.U. sorties. 1 O.T.U. Wellington lost.

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