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Operation No. 114

DISPERSED MT AT PP. 862296 AND 863300

Over target: 1637 hrs 6 aircraft 24 aircrew

Operational Record

Target
Dispersed MT at pp. 862296 and 863300.
Duty
Medium level bombing attack on dispersed MT in pp. 862296 and 863300.
Committed
6 Glenn Martin Baltimore
Time of attack
1637 hrs.
Airborne
1245 hrs
Returned
1416 hrs
From
L.G. 98
Map
1:250000 Egypt and Cyrenaica. Sheet 14. El Daba.
Day / night
Day
Casualties
Four A/C holed. Damage slight.
Bombing
Medium level bombing attack. from 9000 ft. 36 x 250 G.P. 43 Det. with rods. (Baltimores).
Air defences
Intense, heavy and accurate. Two batteries at 863306. Ack/Ack started on beach on way to target and followed to target and over pipe-line. One Ack/Ack post fired at formation as it flew over pp. 882285. No E/A were encountered.
Results
200 plus MT seen in Target area.
All bombs in target area. Two direct hits seen on MT. One explosion on target (not caused by bombing as far as could be ascertained).

9,000ft.

Aircraft and crews