Operational Record
- Target
- PANTELLERIA PORT and environs.
- Duty
- PANTELLERIA PORT (Pamphlets)
- Committed
- 3 Glenn Martin Baltimore
- Time of attack
- 1230/3 hrs. L.T.
- Airborne
- 0917 hrs
- Returned
- 1100 hrs
- From
- Soliman North
- Map
- FRENCH NORTH AFRICA 1:500000 Sheet NJ.32.SE. TUNIS. PANTELLERIA 1:25,000
- Day / night
- Day
- Casualties
- Nil.
- Bombing
- Dropping pamphlets from 6/7000 ft. Course 155 deg. 500 lb. weight of pamphlets in bundles of 4,000.
- Air defences
- No A/A.
- Results
- Three S/E aircraft parked at F 185041.
The bottom gunner in each of the three A/C started to drop bundles of pamphlets as the formation passed over the harbour. The bundles broke their string fasteners soon after leaving the A/C. There was a slight cross wing and the pamphlets appeared to reach the port and island.
7,000ft.
Aircraft and crews
903
B – Baker
- Cormack, C. Pilot
- Lombaard, H. P. T. Observer
- Finberg, P. W/Op AG
- Viljoen, W. V. Airgunner
FA 271
F – Fox
- Guard, S. J. Pilot
- Forsmann, B. L. Observer
- van Rooyen, I. J. Airgunner
- Shepperson, K. O. Airgunner
221
Y – Yoke
- Eaton, T. W. Pilot
- Sachs, P. Observer
- Freestone, H. K. W/Op AG
- Gildon, S. L. Airgunner