The 158 Sqdn left from an unknown RAF station at 1945-03-29 at an unknown time. Loc or duty ?
He flew with a Handley Page Halifax (type III, serial NP996 , code NP-).
Campaign report of the USAAF:
(Ninth Air Force): All combat operations cancelled because of weather except for 2 fighters of the IX Tactical Air Command which patrol the US Third Army front.
Campaign report of the RAF:
29 March 1945
130 Lancasters of No 3 Group carried out a G-H raid on the Hermann Goering benzol plant at Salzgitter. No results were seen through the cloud. No aircraft were lost.
29/30 March 1945
48 Mosquitos to Berlin, 7 to Harburg and 3 each to Bremen and Hannover. No aircraft lost.
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