ALLOCATED TARGET WAS L.G. 21 BUT TARGET BOMBED WAS L.G. 24

Operational Record

Target

Allocated target was L.G. 21 but target bombed was L.G. 24.

Duty

Medium level bombing attack on L.G. 21. (N.B. Formation. Led by 24 Sqn., actually bombed L.G. 24.)

Committed

6 Glenn Martin Baltimore

Time of attack

1712 hrs.

Airborne

1155 hrs

Returned

1515 hrs

From

L.G. 98

Map

1:250000 Egypt and Cyrenaica. Sheet 14. El Daba.

Day / night

Day

Casualties

Six Baltimores holed – none seriously.

Bombing

Medium level bombing attack from 8500 ft. 36 x 250 G.P. 43 Det. with rods. (Baltimores)

Air defences

No Ack/Ack over target but intense and accurate from L.G.'s 16(?) and 104(?). E/A. engagement seen over coast West of L.G. 20. Could not ascertain number. Fighters took off from L.G.'s 20 and 104. (Four and two respectively.) About 4 ME 109 F's broke through fighter cover. Boston seen hit, but it carried on. The Baltimores sustained two hits from fighter.

Results

3 XXXX on West dispersal area of L.G. 20. One Kitty-bomber scored hit or near miss on Ack/Ack West of SE dispersal area of L.G. 20. Very near misses seen on A/C on L.G. 12(?) by Kitty-bombers, one of which scored direct hit on the road between LG's 20 and 104.