Tenth operation Munich
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Tenth operation Munich
Description
Handwritten note giving brief details of operation and a relevant newspaper cutting titled 'Heavies bomb Munich'.
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One handwritten note and a newspaper cutting on an album page
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PPopeKMJ18010056
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Heavies Bomb Munich
Allied air offensive against Germany continued to-day. This afternoon squadrons of R.A.F. fighters, including Spitfires, streaked out across the Straits of Dover. An earlier procession of Lancasters had bombed Munich and objectives in Western Germany before daybreak.
Early this morning when it was still dark a force of Lancasters of R.A.F. Bomber Command made a concentrated attack on Munich.
One of our aircraft is missing.
[underlined]
Tenth Operation.
MUNICH
Sunday Night 26th November 1944
Airborne 9hrs 15mins.
[/underlined]
Allied air offensive against Germany continued to-day. This afternoon squadrons of R.A.F. fighters, including Spitfires, streaked out across the Straits of Dover. An earlier procession of Lancasters had bombed Munich and objectives in Western Germany before daybreak.
Early this morning when it was still dark a force of Lancasters of R.A.F. Bomber Command made a concentrated attack on Munich.
One of our aircraft is missing.
[underlined]
Tenth Operation.
MUNICH
Sunday Night 26th November 1944
Airborne 9hrs 15mins.
[/underlined]
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“Tenth operation Munich,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed February 15, 2025, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/9398.
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