The 420 Sqdn left from an unknown RAF station at 1944-02-29 at an unknown time. Loc or duty Training

On Tuesday 29 February 1944, a member of the 420 Sqdn, Flight Sergeant H S Hardy, 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 Handley Page Halifax (type III, serial LW366, code PT-).

Campaign report of the USAAF:

STRATEGIC OPERATIONS

(Eighth Air Force): Missions 240, 241 and 242 are flown; 1 bomber and 5 fighters are lost.

Mission 240: 218 of 226 B-17s hit aviation industry targets at Brunswick, Germany and targets of opportunity; 1 B-17 is lost and 54 damaged; casualties are 4 WIA and 10 MIA.

Escorting are 61 P-38s, 346 Eighth and Ninth Air Force P-47s and 147 Eighth and Ninth Air Force P-51s; 2 P-38s are lost and 1 damaged, 2 pilots are MIA; the P-47s claim 1-0-0 Luftwaffe aircraft, 1 P-47 is lost and 1 damaged, 1 pilot is MIA; 1 P-51 is lost, the pilot is MIA.

Mission 241: 38 of 48 B-24s hit the V-weapon site at Lottinghen, France without loss.

Escorting are 79 Eighth and Ninth Air Force P-47s; 1 is lost and the pilot is MIA.

Mission 242: 5 of 5 B-17s drop 250 bundles of leaflets on Orleans, Lille, Reims, Cambrai and Chateauroux, France at 2025-2121 hours without loss.

TACTICAL OPERATIONS

(Ninth Air Force): 19 B-26s bomb a coastal gun position and nearby Breck-sur-Mer Airfield, France.

216 B-26s abort a mission against 8 V-weapon sites in France because of total cloud cover over the targets.

Moves in England: HQ 370th Fighter Group and 401st Fighter Squadron from Aldermaston to Andover with P-38s (first mission is 1 May); 389th Fighter Squadron, 366th Fighter Group, from Membury to Thruxton with P-47s.

Campaign report of the RAF:

28/29 February 1944

8 OTU Wellingtons carried out leaflet operations to France without loss.

29 February/1 March 1944

15 Mosquitos to Düsseldorf and 1 to a flying-bomb site at Sottevaast, 20 OTU sorties. 1 OTU Whitley lost.

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