[Cees Steijger]

Good Stuff! Not a lot is known of the mission on 6 October 1944. I've checked most of the MACR's of that day for info/insight etc. Not a lot. Most reports refer to 'Berlin' as target.

After researching the literature I've been able to identified the individual targets.
1. BMW-Werke Spandau
2. Spandauer Stahlwerke
3. Deutsche Industriewerke
Two and three are very close to each other (and close to Siemensstadt, in fact close to an awful lot of targets...what to think of the Fliegerhorste Staaken and Gatow at 4-6 km west of Spandau, or even Döberitz (jägerleitstelle and HQ 1.Jagddivision!) and birthplace of the German military aviation at ca. 1,5 minutes flight time from the aiming point...Anyway.

What the fighter support concerns:
It seems that 56, 78, 353 and 356 FG's escorted the B-24's to Hamburg area.
1BD was escorted by 20, 352, 359 and 364 FG's while 3BD was escorted by 4, 55, 339, 355, 357, 358, 362 and 479 FG's. I'm still tripple checking this.

--Cees

Edit: The target in Tegel was Rheinmetal-Borsigwerke