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Operation No. 104

TARGET L.G. 104

Over target: 1214 hrs 6 aircraft 24 aircrew

Operational Record

Target
Target L.G. 104.
Duty
Medium level bombing attack on L.G. 104
Committed
6 Glenn Martin Baltimore
Time of attack
1214 hrs.
Airborne
0821 hrs
Returned
0955 hrs
From
L.G. 98
Map
1:250000 Egypt and Cyrenaica Sheet 14. El Daba.
Day / night
Day
Casualties
Nil (Baltimores)
Bombing
Medium level bombing attack. 30 x 250 G.P. 43 Det. with rods (Baltimores) Four x 250 hang-ups jettisoned into the sea. 2 x 250 hang-ups shaken off wide of target.
Air defences
Intense, accurate and heavy Ack/Ack encountered over target area. Followed formation out to sea. Ack/Ack posts seen also on escarpment on coast. No E/A encountered.
Results
Dust plumes at pp. 840310 gave the appearance of A/C taking off from there. Boston seen gliding down. Estimated probable landing point pp. 880300. Four A/C seen on NW corner of L.G. 104. Three A/C dispersed near coast a few miles NW of L.G. 104.

Aircraft and crews