Bomber Command raid - night of 4/5 January 1943

ESSEN
4 Pathfinder Mosquitoes and 29 Lancasters of 5 Group. 2 Lancasters lost.
'Skymarker' flares were dropped on Oboe. Essen reports concentrated bombing in the Borbeck suburb, north of the centre, with 42 buildings destroyed, 64 seriously damaged and 14 people killed.