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This raid on Berlin involved 169 aircraft - IOI Wellingtons, 42 Whitleys, 17 Stirlings, 9 Halifaxes - of I, 3 and 4 Groups. 21 aircraft- 10 Wellingtons, 9 Whitleys, 2 Stirlings -were lost, 12ยท4 per cent of those dispatched.
73 aircraft reached the general area of Berlin but could only claim fires on the outskirts of the city, with other results being 'unobserved'. Berlin reports scattered bombing in many areas. Premises hit by the 'bombing were: I industrial, 2 railway, 2 public utility (a gasometer at Staaken was burnt out), 2 official buildings, 30 houses, 16 wooden garden houses, and I farm building. The only buildings classed as 'destroyed' were 14 of the houses. Casualties were: 11 people killed, 44 injured, 637 people bombed out and receiving official help, with a further number going to the homes of relatives and friends. This was the last major raid on Berlin until January 1943. The Bomber Command War Diaries, Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt
.Whitley Mk V Z-9130 MH-F was carrying 1 x 1,000 lb., 3 x 500 lb., and 2 containers of 4 lb, incendiary bombs when it went down in the sea off the Frisian Islands as the result of enemy action
.Killed: Sergeant Arthur Vincent Carpenter RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 40. Sergeant William Martin Chambers RCAF R/61802 KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 61. Squadron Leader Peter George Scott Dickenson RAF pilot KIA Sage War Cemetery grave 3. F. 7. Pilot Officer David Albert Simpson RCAF J/5309 KIA Sage War Cemetery grave 3. F. 6. POW: Sergeant Brian Stephen Walley RAF Stalag 383 Hohen Fels.
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