One raid to-day. Eleven Baltis took off at 08.05 hours (one returned with bomb load after rendezvous owing to engine trouble to bomb a fuel dump and suspected Headquarters. (Area Q627762, Q640766, Q634757). First box, owing to mistaken identity, bombed area Q530700 on a course 310 degrees just South of VINCI. No results observed. Second box bombed on a course of 030 degrees; two explosions with white and brown smoke. Heavy ack-ack, intense and accurate from POGGIBOASI to target and until bomb line crossed. Eight aircraft out of ten holed. One pilot, Lieut. BRUNETTE very slightly wounded before target in hand but carried on, stayed with the formation for the bombing and landed safely with the
Formation. Sortie Report No. 754.
Nothing of Squadron routine importance to record.
Squadron Routine Orders Nos. 65/44 & 66/44