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RAF 10 Squadron navigator's raid chart - Mainz

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Code: P27183-30

RAF Form 441. Approximately 28 x 43.5cm (opened out) x 3. Document relating to a Bomber Command raid on Mainz, Germany by a Halifax crew of 10 Squadron on 1st February 1945. This was part of a 340 strong aircraft raid with 293 Halifaxes, 40 Lancasters and 8 Mosquitoes of 4, 6 and 8 Groups. It doesn't name the aircraft captain, just the navigator who was Flight Lieutenant Douglas Newham. It gives basic weather forecast information and records details of the flight from take off in Halifax LN545 from RAF Melbourne, Yorkshire at 1555hrs. Numerous entries and checks are recorded throughout the sheets but they are not very clearly written up. They landed back at base at 2222hrs. Signed off as 'A very good trip indeed'. Scarce original documents that were actually completed on the bombing raid. Stock code P27183-30.