SCIACCA L.G — Operations

Operational Record

Target: Sciacca L.G.
Duty: Medium level bombing SCIACCA L.G. SICILY
Committed: 6 Glenn Martin Baltimore
Time of attack: 0405/0413 hours.
Airborne: 0105 hrs
Returned: 0410 hrs
From: Soliman Ben Hagen
Map: SICILIA 1:500,000. Sheet No. NE 36/12
Day / night: Night
Casualties: Nil.
Bombing: Height 8/10000 ft. 36 x 250 GP Rods 43 Det.
Air defences: H.A.A. from L.G. area, spasmodic and inaccurate. H.A.A. from West of Sciacca Town. Slight and inaccurate. L.A.A. from Cap Marco point. Slight and inaccurate. One Blue Searchlight, inaccurate.
Results: (1) Target illuminated by 326 Wing. Observers declare that identification of (2) Target would have been impossible without flares. (3) Large fire on slope of NW of L.G. (Grass fire?) (4) Large fire 5 miles NW of L.G. (Grass fire?) (5) On return to base low mist (base 500 ft) made landings difficult.

On arrival over target the first aircraft found a long stick of incendiaries burning in line with, and South of, the West to East Dispersal areas. There were four flares over the L.G. Five of the aircraft attacked from S.W. to N.E. across S.E. and Western corners of L.G. One aircraft bombed from East to West across the Dispersal areas South of the L.G. No results observed.