Airborne Cigar Lancaster dropping bombs

Airborne Cigar Lancaster dropping bombs

Air-to-air photograph of a Lancaster dropping a mixed bomb load on a daylight operation.

1944-10-15

Newspaper cutting

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Record bombing attack on Duisburg, largest inland port in Europe, about 150 miles from the mouth of the Rhine, was carried out on October 15, 1944. This, the RAF's biggest single night operation, followed a similar attack the previous day, when over a 1.000 Lancasters and Halifaxes dropped nearly 5,000 tons of bombs, for the loss of 14 bombers. From one of the Lancasters (above) a 4,000 lb bomb and a shower of incendiaries fall. Photo, British Official.