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"3/5/44. During a Bomber Command attack on a Wehrmacht depot at Mailly-Le-Camp in France, a communications failure led to the entire main force of 346 Lancasters orbiting the target for several minutes. In clear conditions, Luftwaffe night fighters shot down 42 aircraft, with 258 aircrew killed."
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"Lancaster over the target, silhouetted by the glare of exploding bombs. Though marking of the area by a Mosquito force led by Leonard Cheshire was accurate, the Main Force Controller, Wg/Cdr Deane, was unable to contact the Lancasters with the order to bomb due to issues with his VHF radio. While they circled the target, radio discipline began to break down as night fighters arrived in force. 📷 © IWM (C 4335)"
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"Crew of a Lancaster examine the wing of their damaged aircraft after returning from the Mailly-Le-Camp raid. It had been the intention to reclassify sorties over France as counting for only 1/3 of an ‘Op’. This idea was now swiftly dropped. 📷 © IWM (CE 149)"
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"Luftwaffe night fighter pilot Major Martin Drewes (in leather jacket, left in picture) of III./NJG1 shot down 5 Lancasters in 40 minutes during the raid. He had previously been responsible for destroying 3 bombers during the notorious attack on Nuremberg. 📷 aircraftresourcecenter.com"
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"Reconnaissance photograph taken after the attack. Post-raid analysis showed that, despite the delay in bombing and heavy casualties, the depot at Mailly-Le-Camp had been badly hit. It later emerged that 114 barrack buildings, 47 transport sheds and some ammunition stores had been destroyed, along with 102 vehicles, including 37 tanks. 218 German soldiers were killed, with a further 156 injured. 📷 © IWM (HU 92973)"
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