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3 unusual facts about No. 139 Squadron RAF


Jędrzej Giertych

Moved with the Colditz Polish contingent to Oflag IVB at Dossel, he was one of the survivors when on 27 September 1944 a British bomb carried by a Mosquito aircraft of No. 139 Squadron RAF, aimed at nearby Kassel, hit the camp in error and killed 90 Polish prisoners.

No. 139 Squadron RAF

On 4 September 1939 Nos. 110, 107 and 139 Squadrons led the first RAF air raid of the war against German shipping near Wilhelmshaven.

On 3 March it carried out a daring air raid on the molybdenum processing plant at Knaben in Norway.



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