The
target for this morning was a German Military Field
Headquarters at the village of Fentay
la Marmion
(grid reference 0405 80), 1000 lb. bombs were used in the
attack which began at 8000 ft. Our own artillery was to
lay down red smoke on the target at 08:05 hrs. and our
target was marked about one minute early.
The
entire Squadron completed an orbit of the target before
smoke was put down an F/L Fiset led the attack dive on
target from the Southwest. Light and heavy flak thrown up
then, the last burst of heavy flak causing very minor
damage to the tail of the aircraft flown by F/O Moen.
The
light flak boys put up a screen of fire up to 3000 ft at
which height we recovered from our dive: - the light flak
was ineffective. The angle of dive was considerably less
than usual and the bombing not quite so concentrated. As
it was, about eight hits were made in the Southeast
section of the village, the remaining eight bombs falling
slightly short. All aircraft returned safely to base.
Tiger
Squadron