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Operation No. 392

RADIO LOCATION STATION AT CAPE SPARTIVENTO

Over target: 1145 hrs 12 aircraft 48 aircrew

Operational Record

Target
Radio Location Station at Cape SPARTIVENTO.
Duty
Medium level bombing, Radio Location Station, Cape Spartivento.
Committed
12 Glenn Martin Baltimore
Time of attack
1145 Hrs LT.
Airborne
0830 hrs
Returned
1036 hrs
From
Cuticchi
Map
1:500,000 MESSINA NE/38/14
Day / night
Day
Casualties
Nil.
Bombing
Medium level bombing attack, 9500, 10000 feet. Courses 310°/320° 44 x 500 50% G.P. 50% M.C. 49 Dets. 28 Pistols. (4 x 500 G.P. & M.C. jettisoned at D5000. Engine Trouble.)
Air defences
Nil.
Results
Nil.
Formation attacked in Two boxes of six. Bombs started in the sea and on the beach. Direct hits on main road and rail track. Bursts among railway buildings and into target area, where an explosion took place among buildings immediately S.E. of tall Radio Tower.

10,000ft.

Aircraft and crews