The 15 Sqdn left from an unknown RAF station at 1942-03-25 at an unknown time. Loc or duty Transit

On Wednesday 25 March 1942, a member of the 15 Sqdn, Pilot Officer Henry, took off from an unknown RAF station in the United Kingdom. His mission is mentioned elsewhere on Back to Normandy. 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 Short Stirling (type I, serial N6094, code LS-R).

Campaign report of the USAAF:

No report

Campaign report of the RAF:

24/25 March 1942

Minelaying: 35 aircraft of 3 and 5 Groups minelaying off Lorient. 1 Hampden and 1 Lancaster lost.
These were the first Bomber Command losses for 11 days and nights and the Lancaster lost, from 44 (Rhodesia) Squadron, was the first of its type to be lost on operations. The pilot, Flight Sergeant L. Warren-Smith, a South African, and his all N.C.O. crew - 4 Englishmen, 2 Rhodesians, 1 Australian - all died.

25 March 1942

9 Bostons, with fighter escort, carried out accurate bombing at Le Trait shipyard. No Bostons lost.

25/26 March 1942

Essen

254 aircraft - 192 Wellingtons, 26 Stirlings, 20 Manchesters, 9 Hampdens, 7 Lancasters - in the largest force sent to 1 target so far. 9 aircraft - 5 Manchesters (out of the 20 dispatched), 3 Wellingtons, 1 Hampden - lost.
Visibility was good and 181 crews claimed to have bombed Essen, many claiming hits on the Krupps works, but bombing photographs showed that much of the effort was drawn off by the decoy fire site at Rheinberg, 18 miles west of Essen. Essen's report says that only 9 high-explosive bombs, 700 incendiaries and 1,627 leaflets were dropped there. 1 house was destroyed and 2 seriously damaged. 5 people were killed and 11 injured.

Minor Operations: 27 aircraft to St Nazaire, 38 aircraft minelaying off Lorient, 30 aircraft on leaflet flights to France. 1 Wellington on the St Nazaire raid and 1 minelaying Hampden were lost.

Total effort for the night: 349 sorties, 11 aircraft (3.2 per cent) lost.

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