RAF 'Circus 26' - 'an offensive sweep'

28th June 1941: Bombers bait the Luftwaffe and a Luftwaffe Ace is killed - but the cost to the RAF is high

Annotated vertical aerial photograph taken during a ‘Circus’ operation by No. 2 Group aircraft, showing an attack on the power station at Comines, France. Explosions and smoke are rising from direct hits on the boiler house, the pump house and the circulating water pipes of the power station (bottom). Direct hits on workers’ houses can also be seen with…