"We could see other aircraft who got there before us dropping flares, but the night was so cloudy over the city that at first I was unable to locate the target. My crew said we are not going back without dropping our bombs. We will find that target somehow."
"We came down low. The flare from another aircraft illuminated our torgot and we bombed it. Actually only about three bombers found their targets that night. But the next time we went, August 30, the weather was perfect and although it was at night, we managed to locate nearly everything in Berlin by the reflected glare of searchlights which were trying to penetrate the slight mist.
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