The 15 Sqdn left from Wyton at 1942-07-16 at 18:40. Loc or duty Lubeck

On Thursday 16 July 1942, a member of the 15 Sqdn, Pilot Officer R L Melville, took off from Wyton 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 18:40.

He flew with a Short Stirling (type I, serial W7524, code LA-D).

Campaign report of the USAAF:

No report

Campaign report of the RAF:

16 July 1942

Lübeck

21 Stirlings in a raid using similar tactics to the cloud-cover approach and dusk attack as had been used on the recent raid to Danzig. Only 8 aircraft reported bombing the main target; 2 Stirlings were lost.

Other Operations: 2 Wellingtons on cloud-cover raids to Essen, 4 Mosquitos - 2 to Ijmuiden, 1 to Vegesack and 1 to Wilhelmshaven. The only loss was the Mosquito to Wilhelmshaven whose local diary says that it dropped 2 bombs in dockyard installations, wounding 4 people, but was then shot down.

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