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Originally Posted by spidge  Black Thursday: http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/s...a5204792.shtml
Did you know that following a raid on Berlin on the night of 16 / 17th December 1943 (to become know as 'Black Thursday') the official communiqué stated that 24 of our aircraft failed to return?
Further to that, however, because of severe weather and fog, 32 aircraft crashed over England with 127 killed and 34 injured. These were by far the worst bad weather casualties sustained throughout the war and brought the overall total for the night, in grim reality, to 294 killed and 14 prisoners of war. |
97 Squadron "Black Thursday" web site.
http://www.97squadron.co.uk/Intro%20...0Thursday.html