Sortie Report (Form 541)
21 SQUADRON : RAID ON ROVIGO M/YARDS : 20th FEBRUARY, 1945.OPREP NO. 937 :T/O 0825 hrs. : Operation No. 147/21S/M. ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
513 Hv: Lt.Col. Ord Markham Hatwell Smit Forster Bellingan.✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓508 N : Lt. Quail Louwrens Kros Douglas Wilson Solomon✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓639 T : Lt. Collender Gillam Deane Bensen Banfield Suter✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓617 W : Lt. Cloete Blackford Smit Paxton Venter Greijbe.✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓535 K : Capt. Musgrove Goble Jordaan Rabie Betha Cook.✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓629 O : Lt. Reyneke Cordell Teague Hennesey Cloete Tennant✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ x474 D : F/O Hanna Lt. Stuart Dickenson Oldfield v.d. Berg Ras✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓629 A : Lt. Smellie Ramsay Winn Fraser Arthur Howden-- -- -- -- -- --✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓575 P : Lt. Anderson P/O Stuart Webber Steyn McHugh Dodson✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓611 L : Lt. Hussey Quaife Wells Boast Watkinson Kennedy✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓621 B : Lt. Gough Lt. Francis Ryan Andrews Laird Rennie.-- -- -- -- -- --TIMES:- K, Capt. Musgrove 1.00 Hrs.; Lt.Reyneke, F/OHanna, Lt. Smellie 1.50 HrsRemainder i.e. Hv, N, T, W, P, L, B, 2.10 Hrs.REMARKS:- Capt. Musgrove returned early.ANTI FLAK:- ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
632 J : Lt. Brunette McDonald R.J. Penade Roelofse Detteley Heaven✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓619 YY: Lt. Granger Richardson Bailey Adams Kruger Wood.TIMES:- 2.10 Hrs.REMARKS:-
Transcriber's Notes
- ROVIGO M/YARDS
- Rovigo Marshalling Yards, a strategic rail junction in Northern Italy.
- OPREP
- Operational Report.
- T/O
- Take Off.
- Lt.Col. Ord
- Lieutenant Colonel Donald Ord, DFC, Officer Commanding 21 Squadron.
- F/O
- Flying Officer.
- P/O
- Pilot Officer.