Operational Record
- Committed
- 12 Glenn Martin Marauder
- Airborne
- 1408 hrs
- Returned
- 1632 hrs
- From
- Pescara
- Map
- ITALY - 1:100,000 Sheet 100 FORLI
- Day / night
- Day
12 Marauders in three boxes of 4 A/c each airborne from PESCARA between 1608 and 1620 Hrs. to attack CESENA M/Y with a mixed load of frag. and demo bombs. Whole formation bombes at about 1730 hrs., boxes bombing individually on leaders. Due to bad visibility (haze) first box did a dummy run to identify target and eventually bombed immediately after third box. Both of these under-shooting with patterns which commenced in open country north of the target and finishes about 100 yards short of the M/Yards. Second box did not bomb due to the leader experiencing trouble with bomb doors, but one A/c released five bombs with unobserved results. Moderate accurate H.A.A., during run-up (8 A/c holed). Target clear of cloud but visibility extremely bad due to haze. All A/c down by 1832 hrs.