Plt Off. Gunnar Christensen Egebjerg

14 Sqn

Marauder I , FK378 (G)

21.02.43

12:42 - 19:30

Bombing of harbour installations and jetties at Melos Bay. Bombs dropped on buildings at east side of Bay. Landed back at Gambut 3. [Form Form 540] The most important raid of the month with three torpedo and six other Marauders attacking the Harbour and installations at Melos Bay. FK.142 (P/O Clarke-Hall) attacked 5,000 ton vessel with torpedo which later observers state was a direct hit and the ship blew up and sank by the torpedoes. The delivery of the torpedoes was followed shortly by an explosion and a mass of flame and debris. FK.378 (F/Sgt Egebjerg) bombed buildings at the east side of the bay and claimed direct hits. FK.123 (P/O C. Phillips) attacked one M/V of 2,000 tons with bombs, the results was unobserved, but another Marauder was seen in a mass of flames, gaining height but heading West. FK.121 (F/O DONOVAN) straddles another M/V with bombs and observed another Marauder crash in flames at Eastern point of Bay. All these aircraft landed back at Gambut 3. FK.149 (F/Sgt. Bullock) returned to Gianaclis, but no details of his bombing are available. The remaining two aircraft – FK.377 (Sgt. Barton) and FL.139 (Sgt. Yarwood) – are missing as a result of the raid and are believed to be the two aircraft mentioned above.

AIR 27/194