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BREMEN
253 aircraft - 108 Wellingtons, 64 Lancasters, 47 Stirlings, 34 Halifaxes - dispatched, the first time that 4-engined bombers provided more than half of the force on a major raid. 11 aircraft - 4 Stirlings, 4 Wellingtons, 3 Halifaxes - were lost.
The Bremen report shows that 48 houses were destroyed and 934 damaged, mostly lightly, but the report devotes most of its space to details of 'extensive damage' in 5 important war industries, including the Focke-Wulf factory and the A.G. Weser U-boat construction yard, and at the local gasworks, a museum and a merchant-navy college. Most of this damage was caused by fire. The casualties in Bremen are not mentioned.
Minor Operations: 18 Blenheim Intruders, 7 Wellingtons minelaying off St-Nazaire, 5 leaflet flights. No losses.
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