Bombing Instructions

Bombing Instructions

A list of names with five numbers underneath. Handwritten above is a single letter.
Below is a list of heights of each of the five lines of aircraft.

One typewritten sheet

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[inserted] V [/inserted] BROOKES. 13,700 [inserted] J [/inserted] [indecipherable name] 14,000 [inserted] C [/inserted] CASTAGNOLA 13,500 [inserted] W [/inserted] GOODMAN. 13,200

[inserted] R [/inserted] GORDON. 13,000 [inserted] Z [/inserted] POWELL 13,500 [inserted] N [/inserted] PRIDE 13,200 [inserted] A [/inserted] GAVIN 13,700

[inserted] [indecipherable letter] [/inserted] MARSHALL 13,2[missing number]0 [inserted] O [/inserted] DRAVETT 13,700 [inserted] W [/inserted] ANKING 14,000 [inserted] V [/inserted] PRIEST 13,500

[inserted] M [/inserted] SPIERE 13,500 [inserted] V [/inserted] [indecipherable name] 13,000 [inserted] O [/inserted] [indecipherable name] 13,500 [inserted] N [/inserted] WARBURTON 13,200

[inserted] E [/inserted] [indecipherable name] 13,700 [inserted] B [/inserted] [indecipherable name 14,800 [inserted] L [/inserted] [indecipherable name] 13,700 [inserted] X [/inserted] [indecipherable name] 14,000

[underlined] The above is the BOMBING [indecipherable word] [/underlined]

Formation Flying will be as follows:-

1st line. 18,000
2nd line 17,700
3rd line 17,400
4th line 17,100
5th line 16,800