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328 aircraft - 227 Halifaxes, 66 Lancasters, 35 Mosquitoes. 2 Lancasters lost. 9 0f tho Mosquitoes bombed Jr hours before the main raid. The aiming point for the attack was the marshalling yards but results are not known.
419 Moose Squadron (Moosa Aswayita). Lancaster aircraft KB 738 Hit by Flak of 7 Flak Division, during a daylight attack against Opladen, Germany. Crashed onto IG-Farben factory at Levenkusen-Wiesdorf approximately at 06:40. (Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 Part 5 - Theo Boiten) The crew were initially buried in Levenkusen-Manfort Cemetery. Reinterred 18 April 1947. (CWGC), F/Os F.W. How, R.K. Nickle, P/Os J.A. MacGregor, C.D. Hubley, C.R. Tait, N,R Springstein and one RAF member of the crew were killed. This was the 18th trip for this crew.source: John Jones
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