The 57 Sqdn left from an unknown RAF station at 1943-11-17 at an unknown time. Loc or duty Training

On Wednesday 17 November 1943, a member of the 57 Sqdn, Pilot Officer A G Simpson, took off from an unknown RAF station in the United Kingdom. His mission is mentioned elsewhere on WW2 History Europe. You can find the other details of this mission by searching here. Training and cargo flights are not separately mentioned as a mission. The plane left at an unknown time .

He flew with a Avro Lancaster (type III, serial JB315, code DX-).

Campaign report of the USAAF:

(Ninth Air Force): HQ 50th Troop Carrier Wing arrives at Cottesmore, England from the U.S.

Campaign report of the RAF:

16/17 November 1943

21 Mosquitos to Cologne, Gelsenkirchen and Krefeld, 8 OTU Wellingtons on leaflet flights to France. No losses.

17/18 November 1943

66 Lancasters and 17 Halifaxes of No 8 Group on a purely H2S blind-bombing raid to Ludwigshafen without any target indicators being dropped. Few details are available about the results of the bombing but it is believed that the attack was accurate and the IG Farben factory was hit. Because of misleading instructions broadcast from England to the German night-fighter pilots, most of the fighter force landed early and only 1 Lancaster was lost.

21 Mosquitos to Berlin, Bochum, Bonn and Duisburg, 4 OTU sorties.

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