AM 138 SOE Operation BIT VII 4 Lamplight / Goldfinch
Beskrivelse
Særmelding BBC : "79", "80", "Slå hull på nøtten", "På ski over lyng og kvast"
Code : COW Signal bakke: "K" Signal fly: "N"
EUREKA: No reception at all on Rebekka.
GEE: NA
CON PAK M HD CRS SPD LAND . MERKNAD
22 800 020 140 07:28
Squad: RAF 161
1. S/L Read Stirling IV MA-V
Out: 23:59 Drop: 04:00 Completed.
- S/L Read
- F/O Woodward
- F/O Wilks
- F/O Hewitt
- Sec/Lt Grange
- F/Lt Reid
- Sgt Walzak
- W/O Strathern
- F/Sgt Waddington
1. Captains report:
Weather clear over area, able to map read target which was reached at 04:00 hrs. Dropped 22 containers. DZ found ok. Reception was well laid. Whole load dropped. Ok lights. Correct letter slashed in good morse. The weather cleared on crossing Norway coast. No reception at all on Rebekka.
Field report:
Field report: Load not received. See BIT 7 (Standard load (See BIT 8) received, as well as Special load.
Air-27-1068-30 p2
HS8-145 p276/277
HS2-132 s350
Flights of the forgotten:
"The weather was becoming steadily worse and on 8/9 November it created havoc among the operational crews. No 161 Squadron put up seven and No 138 Squadron seventeen aircraft, all to Norway. Only S/L Read of No 161 was able to battle through the foul weather to deliver 22 containers to a 'Bit T DZ. More dangerous was S/L Brogan's situation when lightning struck his No 138 Squadron aircraft, temporarily blinding him. His bomb-aimer had to take over the Controls until his sight recovered; he too aborted and brought his five agents back to base. Two other crews failed to retum, probably victims of the weather conditions; both were from No 138 Squadron;W/O Ouellette in Stirling LK198 and F/L Ford in LJ993. losses for the night; They were not the only Stirling EF234 of No 196 Squadron, flown by F/O Norton, failed to retum from a Dutch operation."Til Sted
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Fremdrift
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