NORTH WEST AREA RANDAZZO VILLAGE — Operations

Operational Record

Target: NORTH WEST area RANDAZZO Village.
Duty: NORTH WEST corner of RANDAZZO Village.
Committed: 12 Glenn Martin Baltimore
Time of attack: 1427 hrs LT.
Airborne: 1055 hrs
Returned: 1335 hrs
From: Hal Far
Map: 1:500,000 SICILIA NE 36/12 TARGET CHART 2/209/NA
Day / night: Day
Casualties: One aircraft minor damage by HAA.
Bombing: Medium level bombing. Height 13000 ft. Course 075° 30 x 250 GP 47 Det 27 Pistols (Nose fused.) 28 x 500 GP 47 Dets 28 Pistols (Tail fused).
Air defences: i) Moderate HAA accurate for height only. 3 Guns firing from C9220. (Latitude :** 37.87222° **Longitude :** 15.04635°**) ii) HAA guns from MALETTO fired half-a-dozen inaccurate bursts at formation after leaving target.
Results: HAA bursts appeared in pairs.

Formation bombed SOUTH of target. Bombs fell from across the Railway crossing WEST of cemetery among scattered buildings towards the Railway station. NO results observed.