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Originally Posted by Juha
On the attacks on harbours which Kurfürst mentioned, according to Ken Wakefield in his article on Oper. Steinbock in The Blitz Then and Now Vol 3
29/30 April on Plymouth, 101 sorties flown by LW, 8 tonnes of bombs hit Plymouth.
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What was the target that night ? Plymouth itself or
dock installations and warships in the harbor ...? If I understand correctly Mr. Beale`s Kampfflieger book, it would seem that at least the Do 217s of III./KG 100 were targeting the harbor and warships on that night, and this series of raids on ports in late April/early May aimed at invasion shipping gathering in British
ports and certainly not in British
cities. Disraelihas a fitting quote about statistics, but it escapes me at the moment, yet it does make me wonder if your other statistics were arrived at in a similiar fashion.
There`s, of course, no arguement about that the Steinbock operation was a small operation, using very limited resources - ie. compare the ~4500 or so sorties flown in five months to the ~3700 night bomber sorties flown in September 1940 alone - yielding limited losses and limited gains.