The 77 Sqdn left from Elvington at 1943-09-07 at 19:18. Loc or duty Munchen

On Tuesday 07 September 1943, a member of the 77 Sqdn, Pilot Officer R W F Munns, took off from Elvington in the United Kingdom. His mission is mentioned elsewhere on WW2 History Europe. You can find the other details of this mission by searching here. Training and cargo flights are not separately mentioned as a mission. The plane left at 19:18.

He flew with a Handley Page Halifax (type II, serial DT793, code KN-E).

Campaign report of the USAAF:

(Eighth Air Force):: VIII Bomber Command Mission 92. 1. 114 B-17's are dispatched to the Brussels/Evere Airfield in Belgium; 105 hit the target at 0849-0852 hours; 1 B-17 is damaged beyond repair and 10 are damaged; no casualties. 2. 29 B-24's are dispatched to the Bergen/Alkmaar Airfield in the Nether- lands; 3 hit the airfield at 0857 and 19 hit a convoy off Texel Island; no B-24's are lost or damaged; no casualties. 3.

147 B-17's are dispatched V-weapon site at Watton, France; weather is a problem and 3 groups abort the mission; 58 hit the target at 0820-0854; 39 B-17's are damaged; casualties are 7 WIA. The 1st and 2d Bombardment Divisions are escorted by 178 P-47's; they claim 3-0-2 Luftwaffe aircraft; 1 P-47 is lost, 1 is damaged beyond repair and another is damaged; casualties are 1 MIA. VIII Air Support Command Mission 52: Marshalling yards at Lille and St Pol are targetted; confusion at the rendezvous point causes one group and half of another to abort the mission; St Pol is hit by 81 aircraft at 0854-0858 hours; they claim 0-0-1 Luftwaffe aircraft; 2 B-26's are damaged; no casualties.

Campaign report of the RAF:

6/7 September 1943

Munich: 257 Lancasters and 147 Halifaxes.

The Pathfinders found that Munich was mostly covered by cloud and neither their ground-markers nor their skymarkers were very effective. Most of the Main Force crews could do no more than bomb on a timed run from the Ammersee, a lake situated 21 miles south-west of the target. The bombing was mostly scattered over the southern and western parts of the city. 16 aircraft - 13 Halifaxes, 3 Lancasters - lost, 4.0 per cent of the force.

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