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Bomber Command raid - night of 27/28 September 1940

Lorient · France

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CHANNEL PORTS, GERMANY
86 Hampdens, Wellingtons and Whitleys to Channel ports, Lorient U-boat base and railway targets in the Ruhr, 1 Wellington lost.

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13 Blenheims. 3 aircraft bombed barges at Ostend. No losses.

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GERMANY, CHANNEL COAST
109 Blenheims, Hampdens, Wellingtons and Whitleys to numerous targets in Germany and to the Channel ports. Whitley crews sent to attack the Fokker aircraft factory at Amsterdam could not identify their target and returned without bombing. 2 Wellingtons lost.

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