Danish WW2 Pilots

Flt Lt Poul Henrichsen

Unit

114 Sqn

Aircraft

Boston IIIA , BZ327 (FD-W)

Date

07.03.44

Time

21:10 - 22:00

Details

Task: Armed recco roads N of ROME. Nine crews were briefed, five took off and after a bad weather report had been received by W.T., a recall was transmitted and the balance of programme cancelled. Weather: 10/10 cloud, base 4000' tops 10,000' and 9/10 ... cloud base 18,000'; on crossing mountains and approaching west coast the ... cloud lowered and joined tops of low cloud and on a/c reported being in cloud at 17,000'. One a/c bombed TERRACINO - bombs fell among buildings, remainder all returned with bombs.

Crew:

  1. F/O P. Henrichsen
  2. F/O G.C.O. Wyerth
  3. F/S Lampert, A.A.
  4. Sgt. Bingham, W.J.

Source

AIR 27/883

Note

ORB is handwritten and difficult to read in places.

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