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Operation No. 334

TRAPANI-MILO A/D

Over target: 0402 hrs 3 aircraft 12 aircrew

Operational Record

Target
Trapani-Milo A/D.
Duty
Medium level bombing attack Trapani-Milo aerodrome.
Committed
3 Glenn Martin Baltimore
Time of attack
0402 LT. Favignana Island. 0403/9 hrs LT.
Airborne
0055 hrs
Returned
0400 hrs
From
Soliman Ben Hagen
Map
SICILIA 1:500,000. Sheet No. NE 36/12
Day / night
Night
Casualties
Nil
Bombing
Medium Level. 6000' over FAVIGNANA IS. 11 x 500 GP (6 x 11 secs 9200/11000' over Target. 2 x 39 Det 6 hrs. 3 x 37 Pistol 12 hrs) tail fused. 1 6 hr delay NOT released, 1 6 hr delay jettisoned in sea and 2 x 11 secs, 1 6hr delay dropped in stick on FAVIGNANA IS.
Air defences
3/4 HAA near target inaccurate. 6 S/Ls over LG for few minutes mostly concentrated over harbour where 15/20 seen and intense HAA and LAA seen.
Results
Beacon seen NORTH of target. Own beacons OK.
One aircraft bombed FAVIGNANA IS. with 3 bombs after jettisoning one in sea, due to inability to gain height. Results unobserved. CROWSFEET NOT dropped. Fire on slope Mt. S. GUILIANO made raid target visible to one aircraft - other bombed on ETA. Crowsfeet dropped after last bomb. 2 bombs seen to explode. NO results observed.

Aircraft and crews