Originally Posted by Wensleydale
From the "Project Propeller" link...
Quote:
On 12 November, Lancaster aircraft from Coningsby, equipped with the Tallboy
bomb, sank the Tirpitz in Operation Catechism.
Has anyone told IX Sqn whose base was Bardney? (The raid was actually flown from Lossie).
Why would anyone want to tell the Sqn that arrived
after the Tirpitz had been terminally hit by 617 Sqn (with their precision bomb sights)?