Operations Record Book, Graveley. The National Archives Air27/380:

See below a list of raids carried out from Graveley by this crew – these total 21½.

  • 4th / 5th April 1943
  • Keil
  • Duty: Main Force
  • 10th / 11th April 1943
  • Frankfurt
  • Duty: Main Force
  • 14th / 15th April 1943
  • Stuttgart
  • Duty: Backer Up
  • 16th / 17th April 1943
  • Mannheim
  • Duty: Vis Illuminator (271 aircraft – a diversionary raid, main target for the night was Pilsen)
  • 20th / 21st April 1943
  • Stettin
  • Duty: Backer Up (German supply port for Russian front. 500 aircraft – Lancasters and Halifaxes.
  • 26th / 27th April 1943
  • Duisburg
  • Duty: Backer Up
  • 12th / 13th May 1943
  • Duisburg
  • Duty: Main Force
  • 13th / 14th May 1943
  • Pilsen
  • Duty: Blind Illuminator (Skoda armaments Works: 156 Lancasters, 12 Halifaxes sent. 9 aircraft lost)
  • 23rd / 24th May 1943
  • Dortmund
  • Duty: Main Force (“greatest number of four-engined bombers ever to be sent out from Britain in a single night up to that time … [and] the first major attack of the war on Dortmund”. It was an “hour-long 2,000 ton assault.” see Pathfinder Cranswick book)
  • 25th / 26th May 1943
  • Dusseldorf
  • Duty: Backer Up
  • 29th / 30th May 1943
  • Wuppertal
  • Duty: Backer Up (in “Happy Valley” … “blasted into near obliteration in that single sixty-minute attack” see Pathfinder Cranswick book)
  • 11th / 12th June 1943
  • Munster
  • Duty: Visual Marker
  • 21st / 22nd June 1943
  • Krefeld
  • Duty: Marker
  • 13rd / 14th July 1943
  • Aachen
  • Duty: Backer Up
  • 15th / 16th July 1943
  • Montlebiard
  • Duty: Visual Marker
  • 2nd / 3rd August 1943
  • Hamburg
  • Duty: Visual Marker
  • 9th / 10th August 1943
  • Mannheim
  • Duty: Blind Illuminator Marker
  • 10th / 11th August 1943
  • Nurnberg
  • Duty: Blind Marker
  • 12th / 13th August 1943
  • Turin
  • Duty: Blind Marker
  • 16th / 17th August 1943
  • Turin
  • Duty: Visual Marker
  • 17th / 18th August 1943
  • Peenemunde
  • Duty: Backer Up
  • 23rd / 24th August 1943
  • Berlin
  • Duty: Blind Marker Note: “This aircraft is missing
  • nothing further being heard from it after take-off.”

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