U 971 vs No 311 Sqn
2014-06-24
Seventy years ago two blips appeared on a radar screen of the Liberator ´O ´of the Czechoslovak No 311 Bomber Squadron NW of the Brest Peninsula. Having acted accordingly the crew captained by P/O Jan Vella eyewitnessed the following reaction of the Allied vessels. In WWII no more crewmen of No 311 Sqn were lucky to enjoy.
In June 1944 Libs of Cz No 311 Sqn stationed at Predannack joined the Operation Cork. Bombers of the Coastal Command prevented both German U boats and the Kriegsmarine surface vessels from attacking all the Allied shipping not only within the English Channel. The Cork Area of twenty th square miles between southern Ireland and the Loire river´s estuary was combed round the clock.
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