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Re: Allied fighter-bombers over Baltic Sea 3/4.Feb.1945?

https://www.awm.gov.au/images/collec...070714--1-.pdf
As a corollary to its mainly defensive policy of escort and patrol in areas where shipping was threatened Coastal Command determined during February 1945 to attack U-boats working-up in their Baltic training areas. From Leuchars on 3rd-4th February seven Liberators of No. 206 and eight of No. 547 set off in atrocious weather to patrol around the island of Bornholm. Two Liberators were forced to abandon the operation, seven including that piloted by Flight Lieutenant Fisher of No. 206 covered the patrol without finding a target, while the remainder made depth-charge attacks against four U-boats and two surface vessels. Flying Officer Atwill, the navigator of E/547, gained radar contact at a range of 15 miles and homed on to a fully-surfaced U-boat which did not dive even after the Liberator made one abortive run and which was then straddled by depth-charges aft of the conning tower.
F/Lt E. V. Fisher, DFC, 421798 ; 206 Sqn RAF . Bank clerk; of Griffith, NSW ; b. Arncliffe, NSW , 9 Nov 1918.
F/O J. A. Atwill, 423036 ; 547 Sqn RAF. Bank clerk; of Strathfield, NSW; b. Grafton, NSW , 18 Nov 1922.


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