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Old 13th April 2013, 15:43
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Re: Mosquito's to Oberhausen 21-1-1944 ?

Hi Marcel
Let me know your email and I can send the information to you.
109 Squadron aircraft are not a good possibility for you as they were marking for the main force at Crossbow sites in France and carried green target indicators and red spot fires for marking but no bombs.
I don't know if the 105 aircraft going to Rheinhausen are a good match either since the ORB states the unsuccessful ones attacked the Duisburg area. Also the Oboe aircraft tended to be very high up and there was no benefit to them going at low level.
There was a special operation by 617 Squadron that night led by Leonard Cheshire that I don't have the routes for. http://www.dambusters.org.uk/docs/recordbook.pdf
There were also diversionary attacks on Berlin, the route I have for that was:
Base - CROMER - 5430N 0640E - 5309N 0931E -TARGET - 5212 N 1330E? -5250N 1000E -5240N 0740E -5318N 0440E -Haisboro - Base. Zero Hour was 23:00
Magdeburg was the main target that night and the route was:
BASE - 5430N 0500E - 5430N 0640E - 5320N 0931E - 5247N 1200E - TARGET - 5155N 1118E - 5320N 0931E -5430N 0640E - 5430N 05??E - BASE
Zero Hour 23:00

SES - the failures could have been caused by German jamming of the Oboe transmissions. I believe they were using Mk I Oboe set which were non-directional and the Germans did jam it as you well know. I don't think they managed to do it on the later sets which were directional and had a number of extra security features. I am very familiar with your excellent site and the mountain of work you have put into it. It really is wonderful and packed with information that cannot be found elsewhere. I think we have had some previous discussions a few years back. Nice to cross paths again.
Cheers
Dave
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