No losses, 8 Mosquitoes to Cologne and Duisburg, the only sorties over Germany that night. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Although the vast number of bombers all but overwhelmed the German defences, 29 Wellingtons failed to return from the raid. The bomb proved to be unreliable on the only occasion it was used on Cologne in April 1944.". This is considered to be the first successful. The first ever 1,000 bomber raid by the RAF was conducted on Cologne on the night of 30/31 May 1942. On the night of 30/31 May 1942, Marston Moor’s Halifaxes took part in the first ever 1,000-bomber raid on Cologne, as part of Operation Millennium. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 23, 2016. From the control tower someone flashed a green, and we fled down the flarepath to take our place in the queue: behind us, dimly, we saw ‘N’ for Nuts, and then the night closed down. 868 aircraft bombed Cologne during the first 1000 bomber raid (1,047 aircraft). Some of Marston Moor’s clapped out Halifaxes were barely fit to leave the ground let alone conduct raids over heavily defended Germany. Nearly 14 Years of continuous service! To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Operation Millennium ChrisLands provides an easy and affordable solution to operating your own online store. 27 Mosquitoes bombed Cologne, all returned to base. ISBN/EAN: 9780671015923. Jim would have spent much of this time driving around the base, ferrying men, fuel and weapons. 28 Mosquitoes bombed Cologne, all returned to base. It seems likely that Jim would have been able to take advantage of some home leave (Marston Moor being only an hour or so away from Leeds). However, just before the raid took place, the Royal Navy refused to allow the Coastal Command aircraft to take part in the raid. It was anticipated that the concentration of bombing over such a short period would overwhelm the Cologne fire brigades and cause conflagrations similar to those inflicted on London by the Luftwaffe during the Blitz. I had wondered too if the sight of gunfire would frighten me, or if the absence of the old, trusted faces would take away the confidence I once had known. At this moment our aircraft went into an evasive dive from 17,000 ft to 12,000 ft so the enemy aircraft was not seen to crash, but it was probably damaged or destroyed.’. The target was Cologne over which the cloud was expected to be at its thinnest. (In defence of the Halifax, however, it should be said that it went on to play a key role in the eventual defeat of Germany). This tells of the famous 1,000 bomber raid on Cologne Germany by the RAF during World War II. "[The GB-1 Glide Bomb] was made from a M34-2000lb bomb fixed to a 12-foot span glider unit and attached to a B-17 underwing shackle. At worst it must have the most dire moral and material effect on the enemy’s war effort as a whole and force him to withdraw vast forces from his exterior aggressions for his own protections.”. Harris favoured so-called area bombing: concentrated raids over a larger area designed to inflict maximum damage. Keywords: BZDB5 Fiction; Operation Millennium Paperback. No aircraft lost on the diversionary raids. Photo credit: The National Archives UK and Crown Copyright, ©Dario Leone and The Aviation Geek Club, 2016. The more experienced crews of numbers 1 and 3 Groups would be in the vanguard flying aircraft equipped with the RAF’s very latest navigation aids. We have provided the new, used, out-of-print, and antiquarian independent bookseller with a full ecommerce bookstore solution since 2001. 4 Mosquitoes equipped with OBOE, with another 4 to Duisburg, in a nuisance raids. 3 Mosquitoes on a nuisance raid, all returned to base. Only 15 of the 155 aircraft in the second wave dropped their bombs. The RAF lost 43 aircraft (German propaganda claimed 44),[9] 3.9% of the 1,103 bombers sent on the raid. Of the 1,047 aircraft sent, nearly 900 bombed the target area - the whole raid passing over in 90 minutes. Harris scrambled around and, by crewing 49 more aircraft with pupil pilots and instructors, 1,047 bombers eventually took part in the raid, two and a half times more than any previous raid by the RAF. 135 aircraft involved in the raid. The main raid of the night was to Leipzig, 1 Mosquito on a diversionary nuisance raid and returned safely to base (main raid to Berlin). The damage to civilian homes, most of them apartments in larger buildings, was considerable: 13,010 destroyed, 6,360 seriously damaged, 22,270 lightly damaged. Not the best history book I've ever read. Two Mosquitoes on a diversionary raid drop target indicators (the main raid was on Aachen). He found himself a quiet place and mentally rehearsed the details of the forthcoming mission.

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