Operational Record
- Committed
- 12 Glenn Martin Marauder
- Airborne
- 1022 hrs
- Returned
- 1335 hrs
- From
- Jesi
- Map
- ITALY - 1:100,000 Sheet 50 PADOVA
- Day / night
- Day
12 Marauders airborne from JESI L/G. at 1222 Hrs. to bomb CASTEL FRANCO VENETO M/YDS. (G3977). They formed up in three boxes of four A/c each and after rendezvous with 6 Spitfires at BALLERIA, they set course towards target at 1307 Hrs. They climbed up to 15000' over a bank of cloud but encountered another one at 45 degrees Lat. NORTH which appeared to extend up to 17000'. After searching vainly for a gap, the A/c turned back at 1352 Hrs. position about 20 miles South-East of VENICE. One A/c had returned early owing to electric wires shorting and smoke issuing from under the navigator's table. The remaining A/c after jettisoning their bomb-load at sea (on instructions from base, due to 20/25 m.p.h. crosswind on runway), all landed safely by 1535 Hrs.