Basic Overview
Date: 30 June 1941
Scope: Minor
Nature: Air, Bombing
Status: Implemented
Scope: Minor
Nature: Air, Bombing
Status: Implemented
Theater
- Germany & German waters
Nations Involved
- UK
- Germany
Operation Details
'Wreckage' was a British low-level daylight air sweep against Bremen by 28 Bristol Blenheim light bombers of Air Vice Marshal D. F. Stevenson’s No. 2 Group of Air Marshal Sir Richard Peirse’s RAF Bomber Command, and also six Handley Page Halifax heavy bombers (30 June 1941).
,This was a raid undertaken with the aid of cloud cover, and the bombers attacked Bremen (17 aircraft) as well as Kiel, Norderney and Sylt. The British loses were one Blenheim and one Halifax.
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