mystery squadron with 2000 lbs

[Marcel Hogenhuis]

Dear Steve,

In these dark days for Christmas with lots of snow, your promising (but yet not conclusive) response does lighten up my hopes to find answers at last !!

Because I can imagine, that some ORB's did not specify the bombloads and just captured it in one word 'bombs', I hardly can imagine that where these bombloads explicitly were ordered by Group staff for its squadrons, one squadron took 2000 lbs instead of the ordered mix of 4000 lbs and incendiaries. Therefore my assumption remains a firm suspection, that 214 or 218 squadron carried those six 2000 lbs. to Duisburg.

We can exclude 15 and 149 Squadron, the first brought 'only' 5 bombers over Duisburg and they all bombed before 20.00 hours. Of 149 I only know at the moment that they have sent 5 Stirlings to Duisburg, further details not known yet.

214 Squadron had 6 Stirlings over Duisburg, they all bomber between 19.42 and 20.02, further details would be of tremendous help.

Well, any details you might be able to provide of the times over target and/or bomb load involved, would be much appreciated! You may contact me directly by: marcelhogenhuis@gmail.com

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Marcel