The 218 Sqdn left from Marham at 1942-07-31 at an unknown time. Loc or duty ?
He flew with a Short Stirling (type -, serial R9332, code -G).
Campaign report of the USAAF:
(8th Air Force): Units of the Provisional Troop Carrier Command are organized in UK.
Campaign report of the RAF:
30/31 July 1942
6 Blenheims on Intruder flights were recalled but one did not hear the signal and went on to bomb Rheine airfield. There were no losses.
31 July 1942
24 Bostons to Abbeville airfield and St Malo harbour; all bombed accurately and without loss. Mosquito bombed the dock area of Duisburg.
31 July/1 August 1942
Düsseldorf
630 aircraft - 308 Wellingtons, 113 Lancasters, 70 Halifaxes, 61 Stirlings, 54 Hampdens, 24 Whitleys. This was another raid in which Bomber Command's training units provided aircraft, though it was not an attempt to reach the 1,000-aircraft figure. It was the first occasion when more than 100 Lancasters took part in a raid. 484 aircraft claimed successful bombing although their photographs showed that part of the force bombed open country. More than 900 tons of bombs were dropped.
453 buildings in Düsseldorf and Neuss, the suburb town over the Rhine, were destroyed and more than 15,000 damaged (12,192 only lightly). 954 fires were started, of which 67 were classed as large. 279 people were killed - 245 in Düsseldorf and 34 in Neuss; 1,018 people were injured and 12,053 were bombed out. (The British Official History, p. 487, gives 379 deaths but this is believed to be an error.)
The casualties of the bomber force were again heavy. 29 aircraft - 16 Wellingtons, 5 Hampdens, 4 Halifaxes, 2 Lancasters, 2 Whitleys - were lost; this was 4.6 per cent of those dispatched. 92 (OTU) Group lost 11 of its 105 aircraft on the raid, a casualty rate of 10.5 per cent.
6 Blenheim Intruder sorties were flown; 1 Blenheim lost.
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