Wellington W5527 Mk. II - Bombing Hamburg Germany - 1941-08-02 to 1941-08-02
Squadron: 405 (B) Sqn (RCAF)
Start Date: 1941-08-02
Completion Date: 1941-08-02
Mission: Bombing
Operation: unspecified
Target City: Hamburg Germany
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Base: RAF Pocklington
Take Off Time: 22.35
Squadron Code: LQ F
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80 aircraft - 58 Wellingtons, 21 Whitleys, 1 Stirling - to bomb railway targets. 2 Wellingtons lost. Hamburg reports 5 people killed, 38 injured and 738 permanently or temporarily bombed out. There were 10 fires, 5 of them large ones. The most serious fire was caused by a concentration of incendiary bombs falling on a large dump of rolled cork stored in the open in the Billbrook area. This burned for 7 hours. The Bomber Command War Diaries, Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt

Pilot Officer R Cox, Pilot Officer J R Horn (RAAF), Pilot Officer A O Learmouth (RCAF), Flight Sergeant R M Thomas, Sergeant J M Reed: missing believed killed; Sergeant H B McKenzie: killed; Wellington W5527, 405 Squadron, aircraft failed to return from an operational flight over Hanover, Germany, 3 August 1941. With photographs.

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