Squadron: 419 (B) Sqn (RCAF)
Start Date: 1942-09-02
Completion Date: 1942-09-03
Mission: Bombing
Operation: unspecified
Target City: Karlsruhe Germany
Target Specific:
Base: Topcliffe
Take Off Time: 22.53
Squadron Code: VR R
Radio Code:
Return Base:
Return Time:
Crash City: Near Warnant (Namur), 9 km NNW of Dinant, Belgium.
Crash Specifics:
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason:
Flak Battery:
Enemy Claim:
War Diary Unavailable
6 Group Unavailable
6 Group Unavailable
200 aircraft of 5 types with 4 Group Halifaxes now back on major operations. 8 aircraft - 4 Wellingtons, 2 Lancasters, 1 Halifax, 1 Stirling - lost, 4·0 per cent of the force.
The Pathfinders were accurate and this was a successful raid. An estimated 200 fires were seen burning at the same time. Reconnaissance photographs showed much residential and some industrial damage. A very short report from Karlsruhe says only that 73 people were killed and that 3 public buildings in the city centre were hit.
source: The Bomber Command War Diaries, Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt
Bomber Command Museum Monthly ORB
