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Wilbur1 I am not an expert but it was made from coal and the plants were a common target in the Ruhr. https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/1811/3612/1/V47N06_259.pdf. Also if you a google on synthetic oil, bombing and RAF you will find quite a bit. Regards Dave

My father's encounters with night fighters were only on Stirlings. The Oboe mosquitos were usually operating at 28,000 feet to 32,000 feet since the higher they were, the greater the range Oboe had. I have the operational records for 109 Squadron and there are occasional run ins with both night...

Thanks for getting back to me and for your knowledge. My father did a tour of operations on Stirlings with 214 Squadron from March to July of 1943. He then joined 109 Squadron with the Pathfinder Force doing Oboe marking (on Mosquitos) from April of 1944 to December 1944 and completed 90...

Hello Erich I saw in an old post you referring to Gerd Friedrich. I have just identified the fact that on April 17/43 he was shot down and wounded near Hochspeyer while attacking the Stirling my father was Navigator on. He had made the attack with his navigation lights on and was easily seen...