[Marcel Hogenhuis]

Hello Rod,

Thanks for your comments and excluding the chance that I misunderstand 'second annotation': whose annotation do you mean?

I can see your point about the originally planned 23 aircraft of Syerston now and I am aware that form B was a statement of intent, since Lancaster W4236 of 61 Sqdn actually carried a 4000 lbs Cookie instead of the asked load A and two Lancasters of 106 carried four 1000 lbs GP plus 10 SBC's.

Do I understand it correctly that I might (repeat: just might) find perhaps other/later/revised versions of the Group Operational Order in the other AIR 14 files as mentioned by you earlier? I will order these anyway to take every opportunity to find which number of Cookies MIGHT be carried by 61 and 106 Sqdn and/or the other squadrons of 5 Group.

Many thanks for your input! Best regards, Marcel