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Aviation History
1944
1944 - 0739.PDF
AMPHIBIOUS OPERATION : Retrieving boxes of tools on a flooded airfield in the Mediterranean area. Hal-fax II, IA's and Thunderbolts of the N.A.A.F. use the airfield. WAR Qreat Nuremberg Air Fight : Satellite Capitals Bombed "Tirpitz" Attacked Again : Qeneral Wingate Killed The T VHE loss of 94 bombers in an attack by Lancasters and Hali-faxes on Nuremberg on the night of March 2gth-3oth, has proved that the fighter branch of the Luft- wafje is still full of fight when the ob ject is deemed worthy of an effort. The R.A.F. took a risk in attacking in bright moonlight. Several other attacks have been made recently in similar conditions, and with sufficient success to warrant perseverance in the policy. On this occasion, however, the bright light favoured the defence. Our air gunners must have scored some suc cesses too, but officially only one enemy aircraft has been claimed as destroyed that night. In the hurly- burly of a desperately hard fight there would be few chances to keep tally of the results of attacks. Moreover, it is reasonable to suppose that many of the missing bombers left their mark SINGED : A sooty and charred Mos quito night-fighter which ventured too close to a Ju 188 before opening fire. There was a great explosion and sheets of blazing oil smothered the Mosquito, covering the windscreen with soot and burning the fabric off the wings, fuse lage and rudder. on their attackers; but the crews did not return to make their claims. We grieve for our losses; bijt—to. think only of R.A.F. lo^aes&ec&use they are published day by day is to lose a sense of proportion. There must be many days on which the A Italy lose more lives than are sacrificed in an ordinary R.A.F. raid, but we dojiotget the casualty lists published day byTtay^and so are not affected by them in the s&sie way. bad news is the Wingate in nn
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