The Bomber Command War Diaries : An Operational Reference Book by Chris Everitt & Martin Middlebrook

Author:Chris Everitt & Martin Middlebrook [Everitt, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2014-04-01T21:00:00+00:00

28 (a and b). Precision bombing. The V-2 rocket assembly hall and the workers’ housing area at Peenemünde.

Bomber Command’s losses were 40 aircraft – 23 Lancasters, 15 Halifaxes and 2 Stirlings. This represents 6.7 percent of the force dispatched but was judged an acceptable cost for the successful attack on this important target on a moonlit night. Most of the casualties were suffered by the aircraft of the last wave when the German night fighters arrived in force; the groups involved in this were 5 Group, which lost 17 of its 109 aircraft on the raid (14.5 percent) and the Canadian 6 Group which lost 12 out of 57 aircraft (19.7 percent). This was the first night on which the Germans used their new schräge Musik weapons; these were twin upward-firing cannons fitted in the cockpit of Me 110s. Two schräge Musik aircraft found the bomber stream flying home from Peenemünde and are believed to have shot down 6 of the bombers lost on the raid.*

8 Mosquitoes carried out a successful diversion raid on Berlin. 1 aircraft lost.

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