ROYAL AIR FORCE BOMBER COMMAND, 1942-1945. - Vertical aerial photograph taken from a Handley Page Hailfax of No. 427 Squadron RCAF during a major night raid by a mixed force of 128 aircraft on the German submarine base at Lorient, France. Sticks of incendiary bombs are burning among port installations at La Perriere and on Ile St Michel, and smoke is drifting from well-established fires, (upper left). A photoflash bomb (top right) from the Halifax clearly illuminates the concrete U-boat pens and radial slips turntable at Keroman (lower centre), and also two Vickers Wellingtons in the target ar
ROYAL AIR FORCE BOMBER COMMAND, 1942-1945. - Vertical aerial photograph taken from a Handley Page Hailfax of No. 427 Squadron RCAF during a major night raid by a mixed force of 128 aircraft on the German submarine base at Lorient, France. Sticks of incendiary bombs are burning among port installations at La Perriere and on Ile St Michel, and smoke is drifting from well-established fires, (upper left). A photoflash bomb (top right) from the Halifax clearly illuminates the concrete U-boat pens and radial slips turntable at Keroman (lower centre), and also two Vickers Wellingtons in the target area. , Royal Canadian Air Force, 427 Squadron
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