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Bomber Command raid - night of 3/4 November 1941

Brest · France

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Minor Operations
8 Wellingtons to Brest, 7 aircraft to Boulogne, 6 Hampdens on shipping patrol attacked a convoy in the Frisians, 10 Hampdens minelaying in the North Sea. No losses.

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ESSEN
28 Wellingtons; only 9 crews claimed to have found and attacked the Krupps works. No aircraft lost.
Minor Operations: 20 aircraft to Dunkirk and Ostend, 9 Hampdens on shipping patrols in the Frisians and in the Kiel area, 24 Hampdens and 4 Manchesters minelaying in Kiel Bay. No losses.

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