This
was the second effort in "blind bombing", as it became
to be known. Eight aircraft were lined up for the show but one
failed to start. S/L Crosby led seven aircraft off and they
began a climb over the drome to 10,000 feet. During the climb,
Red 4 developed a glycol leak and returned to base early. At
10,000 feet, the first vector was given and the flights spread
out in a wide vic, Blue flight flying about 50 yards behind
their respective numbers in Red flight. This brought up all the
aircraft together and still enabled mobility in turns. The final
run in was made on a vector of 030 degrees and bombs
released on signal. Results could not be observed due to a
layer of 10/10ths cloud at 7000 feet. The six aircraft returned
to base.
Note:
500 lb bombs were carried and were fused with 11 sec. delay
fuses. The reason for this was that they were previously fused
for another show which did not materialize. The target was a
little town Laffeld, Germany, 1500 yards from the bomb line at
map reference K.8272.
Tiger
Squadron