Operational Record
- Committed
- 12 Glenn Martin Marauder
- Airborne
- 0545 hrs
- Returned
- 0835 hrs
- From
- Pescara
- Map
- ITALY - 1:100,000 Sheet 100 FORLI
- Day / night
- Day
12 Marauders (followed by 12 A/c of 30 Squadron) airborne from PESCARA at 0745 hrs. to attack FORLI M/YARDS. Formation set course at 0855 hrs. from FALCONARA, where an escort of 8 Spitfires was picked up and bombed by boxes, line astern from 11,000 feet at 0925 hrs. on a course of 27Oº. First box over-shot badly, bombs falling in centre of FORLI TOWN. Second box undershot, pattern commencing in open country and finished just short of the N.E. end of the M/Yards. 4 x 1000 lbs. bombs jettisoned in sea and 2 x 1000 hung-up and were brought back. No enemy opposition. All A/c down by 1035 hrs.
11,000ft.