DISPERSED A/C ON SFAX EL MAOU L.G — Operations

Operational Record

Target: Dispersed A/C on SFAX EL MAOU L.G.
Duty: Medium level bombing attack on dispersed Aircraft on SFAX EL MAOU L.G.
Committed: 12 Glenn Martin Baltimore
Time of attack: 1701 hrs.
Airborne: 1325 hrs
Returned: 1615 hrs
From: Zuara
Map: TUNISIA 1:500,000 Sheet N1/32/NE SFAX.
Day / night: Day
Casualties: Nil.
Bombing: Medium level bombing attack. 72 x 250 lb. GP 43 Det. (Rods)
Air defences: HAA moderate and inaccurate except for height. Accurate bursts were seen to follow A/C in centre of formation as left hand turn off target was made.
Results: Small MT convoy facing NORTH, well dispersed on ROAD GABES - ? One Boston left formation and landed at BEN GARDANE NORTH L.G. at 1730 hrs.

Formation crossed coast at TU 8328, and pattern bombed on leader on ETA four to five miles inland on course of 293 deg. It is estimated that bombs fell past the L.G. from the SW to the NW corner.