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Date: June 28th 1943
Diary

[newspaper clipping titled:]

Cologne Raid Foiled Nazis’ New Defences: Flames Ravage City

[handwritten heading and note:]

HALIFAX “L”     28:6:43     NO.3.
COLOGNE     D.O.T. 5:20

B.D. T.D. 17,520 LBS.

W.A.G. “Said [flash?] Gone.
Eng: Pulls togal and drops Bombs
B.A.: Tells him off.

Diverted to Chippin Warden.
Flak was  very Heavy and very well predicted. We were bounced around for 8 min. We were hit 9 times.

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