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The N3673 did 19 operations, the aircraft was equipped with a new electronic device code named 'Trinity' to help locate the large German ships that the Royal Navy had been insisting the RAF to bomb. Also this Stirling was equipped with a GEE radar. Missions flown by the N3673 31-10-1941, Boulogne 3 missions are not known or not recorded. |
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The Brest operations targetted the big german ships and docks
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Operation "Oiled" 29-1-1942, target was the Tirpitz which layed in a fjord near Trondheim, Norway. Seven Stirlings of 15 Squadron and nine Halifaxes of 76 Squadron attempt to attack the Tirpitz in Faettenfjord but fail to locate the battleship. |
| The Renault factory, in the town of Boulogne-Billancourt just west of the centre of Paris, was making an estimated 18,000 lorries a year for the German forces. 235 aircraft - 89 Wellingtons, 48 Hampdens, 29 Stirlings, 26 Manchesters, 23 Whitleys, 20 Halifaxes - were dispatched in 3 waves, the crews of the leading wave being selected for their experience. The plan called for the massed use of flares and a very low bombing level so that crews could hit the factory without too many bombs falling in the surrounding town. There were no Flak defences. 223 aircraft bombed the target, reporting excellent results. Only 1 Wellington was lost. The main raid lasted 1 hour and 50 minutes. |
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History of the N3673, History of the crew, The last flight, Aftermath, Research