DUSSELDORF TARGETS
LIT UP BV PATHFINDER PLANES TOTAL BOMB-LOAD DROPPED IN 27 MINUTES. AIRCRAFT HOME BEFORE MIDNIGHT. (British Official Wireless.) /Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) RUGBY, November 4. . As in previous attacks on Germany s great industrial cities, units of the Pathfinder Force of the Bomber Command arrived over Dusseldorf just before zero hour. It was their task to mark out the targets with brilliant flares, and a few minutes after the attack had opened the crews in the great striking force which followed the Pathfinders could see flares burning for a long time on the ground. The actual bombardment (in which 2,000 tons of bombs were dropped) was all over in 27 minutes. The attack was a race against time, as fog was possible at any time after midnight. The bombers reached Dusseldorf shortly before eight o'clock and were back at their airfields well before midnight.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 November 1943, Page 4
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