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Bomber Command raid - night of 8/9 November 1940

Le Havre · France

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GERMANY, ITALY, OCCUPIED COUNTRIES
106 aircraft to many targets. 4 Whitleys were prevented from taking off from Honington because of a German air raid there. 1 Wellington lost. There were 2 O.T.U. sorties.

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10 Blenheims. 1 aircraft bombed an airfield near Le Havre. No losses.

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14 Blenheims and Hampdens to airfields and to a seaplane base at Lorient. No losses.

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