Ditching in the Channel in December
18th December 1941: The crew of a Halifax bomber having a lucky escape after being hit by Flak during yet another raid on the French port of Brest
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Throughout 1941 the French port of Brest had been a principal target for the RAF, attempting to knock out the two 'pocket battleships' Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau that remained in dock,…
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