Ops 2ndTAF van september 1944 tot mei 1945. 5th. SEPTEMBER, 1944 Pg1503 Typhoons 1 x 24 Armed shipping recce to Dutch Islands. A convoy attacked with R/P, claims: 1 1500-ton ship sunk; 1 1500 ship afire; 2 small trawlers and 1 200-ton coaster damaged. F/L. Watts (257) N.Y.R. Pg1503 Spitfires 1 x 12 Armed recce to Dutch Islands. At D.4542 attacked 4 tugs and 4 barges moving up stream. Strikes seen on all barges. After attack, tugs steamed for shore; a/c landed in UK 5/6th. SEPTEMBER, 1944 Pg1507 Mosquitos 1 x 28 Z.6302 – Train, 10 coaches, straffed for 35 minutes, much steam from enigine and fires spread length of train. E.6108 – 3-4 MET straffed. NRO Y.7007 – Goods train bombed and straffed, strikes seen. M/Y’s at Maastricht, Amersfoort and Baarn were attacked and fires started. Pg 1507 Mosquitos 1 x 22 E.9601 – Train, 15 coaches, moving S.E. straffed. Strikes on four rear coaches. 6th. SEPTEMBER, 1944 Pg1509 Spitfires 4 x 40 Same area. Pass. Ferry with barges carrying truck left burning off Flushing. 1 Barges with MET probably destroyed. 1 MET smoker. 6/7 SEPTEMBER, 1944 Pg1512 Mosquitos 1 x 20 E.9343 – Train moving E.S.E. problable tankery wagons straffed and bombed. Fire started at rear end. E.8869 – Possible MET parked on roadside Straffed and bombed. Small explosions followed. 5 A/C returned with bombs and flares having found no targets. 7/8th. SEPTEMBER, 1944 Pg1513 Mosquitos 1 x 7 All a/c detailed on Breskens-Flushing and Terneuzen – Ellewoutsdijk ferries, attacked with 42 flares, 16.00 rounds 1 of cannon and 15.00 M.Gun. No activity seen on ferries, but following results observed:- D.4225 – 40 Rly Trucks, many strikes. Other attacks on railways and bridges. N.R.O. Pg1513 Mosquitos 1 x 8 All A/C. Detailed on road network up to W.Schelde Ferries and road/rail routes Walcheren/Bergen Opzoom, Attacked with 48 flares and 1.000 rounds of cannon. Following results seen:- D.2016 – Strikes seen on medium size ship. D.2712 – Small ship and six barges attacked. D.0919 - Light flak position attacked. Pg1513 Mosquitos 1 x 13 All a/c detailed on movement in area Amsterdam – Utrecht – Gorinchem – Rotterdam – The Hague, attacked with 26 x 500, 78 flares, 700 rounds of cannon and 1280 of M.G. Following results seen: D.9383 – Bombs on road/rail crossing, blue flash and debris seen. D.9383 – Number of lights in area attacked, R.N.O. E.0175 – Bombs on railway lights, fire beside railway. D.8962 – 2 small boats straffed. R.N.O. 8th. SEPTEMBER, 1944 Pg1515 Typhoons 9 x 70 NIJMEGEN-TIEL. 6 plus barges in lock at E.6168, cannoned. 1 tug left sinking. ARNHEM-UTRECHT. Small tug at E.5886. All bridges appeared intact. UTRECHT-DORDRECHT. 2 trains going N. at E.2579 attacked and damaged. VENLO-WESEL-BOCHOLT. 2 barges and tug damaged at A.2239. Poss. Dummy at A.2971. VENLO-WESEL. Barges on fire at E.9560. Attacked with cannon and 2 tugs left sinking. Trains at E.7955 attacked with cannon. Meager LAA at E.8053. VENLO-WESEL. Tugs and barges at E.5675. 1 tug beached and on fire, 1 barge sunk. F/L Stooks NYR. FLUSHING-WOENSDRECHT. 30 plus barges attacked J.2599 – D.2712. Intense LAA D.2712. FLUSHING-BREDA. Train attacked at E.1921, engine blew up, 2 passenger cars left smoking. 4 tunnelled ship towing barge at D.2217. 8/9 SEPEMBER, 1944 Pg1517 Mosquitos 30 x 30 21 Mosquitos attacked Movement on both sides BRESKENS-FLUSHING-TERNEUZEN-ELLEWOUTSDIJK with 42 x 500 MC., 40 x 3 flares, cannon and M.G. 8 a/c found no targets and brought bombs back. Results generally unobserved but fires started after bombing lights at D.5632, E.1778 and a train at D.4125. 2 9th. SEPTEMBER, 1944 Pg1519 Typhoons 7 x 56 Flushing-Woendrecht. 1 loco and 40/50 goods trucks destroyed at D.3429. Area as above. Loco and coached destroyed at D.4225. 5 E. Boats S. of D.4131, 1 set on fire. Barges D.5222 attacked, 5 damaged. Dortrecht-Utrecht. Goods train dam E.3547. Scattered barges Hertogen-bosch. MET (1-2-10). Tilburg-Eindhoven. N.M.S. Maastricht-Venlo. 5 barges K.7287 dam. Scat MET. Many barges R. Maas flying red, white and blue. E. and W. of Scheldt. 15 barges D.4124. Hits on lock gates there.. 32 R/P, explosions seen, N.R.O. Small parachutes carrying ball with cable attached. Zuid-Beveland Canal. 100 ft ship dam, 1 tug dam, 1 train, 10 passenger and 10 goods trucks D.6729, loco dam. 8 ships S. end of canal, 6 barges W. end. Pg1520 Typhoons 14 x 100 Area as above. 2 barges stunk, 12 dam out of 30 plus seen in Yerseke-harbour. 50 R/P fired. Venlo-Eindhoven-IJmuiden. 6 car electric train dam, E.5523. 1 Tug and 3 barges dam. Goods train loco dam E.6518. Barges D.8609 to E.0107, 12 dam. Transformer D.9807 damaged. Arnhem. Abortive due weather. N.E. Albert Canal. 40/50 barges D.8609 to E.0107. Hits on 40, 7 sunk. Area as above. 1 A/C Cat E. NDEA. Pilot safe. Barges at D.4123. 12 barges bombed with 18 x 500. All bombs in T/A. R.N.O. F/O Hewson missing. Bergen-Breda. N.M.S. Wessel-Arnhem. Abortive due weather. Maastricht-Venlo. Abortive due weather. Schelde. Barges attacked at D.3818. Pg1521 Flushing. Abortive due weather. Schelde. Barges attacked D.4131. Suspected flak ship moored D.4233. 40 barges moored D.4123 – 4131 and 30 at D.4428. 9/10th SEPTEMBER, 1944 Pg1525 Mosquitos 1 x 31 14 a/c detailed to attack all movement over and on both sides of ferries at Breskens-Flushing, Terneuzen-Ellewoutsdijk. Due to low cloud and electrical storms only 3 a/c attacked the ferries in Flushing area, all with unobserved results. The remaining a/c were either cancelled, recalled or abortive. 2 a/c detailed to attack ammo. train on Rly from Bentheim-Soesterduinen. 1 a/c bombed train at Deventer (Z.9208), bombs fell on rly station. Second a/c unable to find target so jettisoned bombs. 3 A total of 8 bombs, 30 flares, 1200 rds canon and 1200 rds of M.G. used on both operations above. 10th SEPTEMBER, 1944 Pg1526 Spitfires 1 x 12 Detailed on ferries Terneuzen. Convoy of about 20 barges and small steamers sailing from West Schouwen to VLISSINGEN strafed with cannon and M.G. Strikes observed. Pg1526 Typhoons 13 x 86 Flushing-Breda-Turnhout-Woensdrecht. Train plus ten trucks painted green with red crosses on side stopped. Loco dam, one truck next to loco on fire D.6328. Loco and fourty goods trucks E D.9036, loco dam. No other movement seen. Breda-Hertogen-Bosch-Eindhoven. Barges in area. 4 dest. 3 dam. One goods train attacked E.3824. 20 plus trucks left burning. Schelde estuary. One R. Boat dam, 4 barges dam. D.3115. 48 R/P fired. Shipping strike Flushing. 3 barges attacked D.3420. 2 D/H on one barge. 14 R/P fires. Breda-Eindhoven-Turnhoudt. 2 barges dam E.1037. 2 small boats dam E.0539. Scat MET (3-2-0). Woensdrecht-Breda-Turnhoudt. 13 barges dam. E.0207 and D.7333. Schelde estuary. 31 R/P fired. One 1000 ton M/V dam D.4133. Schelde estuary. 40 R/P fired. Barges. 2 smokers, 2 dam. Bergen-op-Zoom-Breda-Eindhoven. Loc of Red Cross train straffed D.8937. 1 a/c crashed Cat E, Pilot safe. Turnhoudt-Eindhoven-Venlo-Erkelenz. 2 goods trains, 2 passenger trains, 1 coal train Venlo area. 5 locos dam, 1 MET dam. Pg1527 Turnhoudt-Eindhoven-Venlo-Ekelenz. 2 goods trains, 2 passenger trains, 1 coal train Venlo area. 5 locos dam, 1 MET dam. Schelde estuary. 1/700 ton M/V stopped facing N. D.2934. Attacked R/P and cannon, strikes seen. 47 R/P fired. Schelde estuary. One large SP Barge dam. 16 R/P fired. 1 A/C Cat E. W/C P, Brown baled out – safe. 60 plus MET N.E. on road E.2235 – 3143. 20 plus MET stat on road E.2253 – 3143 attacked. Stat goods train E.3140 attacked with cannon, strikes seen. 64 R/P fired. MET (4-1-0). Pg1527 Mustangs 3 x 36 Zwolle-Lingen-Arnhem. MET (2-5-7-). 6 locos severely damaged, 2 locos dam, 2 small locos blown up. 3 Tugs severely dam, 1 tug dam. All in recce area. 1 A/C and P/O. Thorne missing believed hit by flak as straffed low. Arnhem-Zwolle-Hilversum. Ammo train attacked D.7212. Big explosions. Already dam by previous attack. Stat MET (2-0-0). 4 Roermond-Geldern-Zwolle-Amersfoort. 5 Locos severely dam. 1 loco dam. 1 SP Barge dam. All S. and E. of Zwolle. 4 MET dam. Pg1527 Spitfires 3 x 36 Roermond. 3 Locos damaged. Venlo-Geldern-Nijmegen. 2 motor barges attacked E.7646, 1 beached the other left smoking midstream. 3 locos and goods trains attacked, strikes seen. Hertogen-Bosch-Arnhem-Geldern-Venlo. Scat MET (1- 0-2). Pg1528 Mustangs 3 x 36 Venlo-Neede-Zwolle. 1 tug blown up E.4065. 1 tug dam, 1 barge dest E.5569. 1 tug and 3 barges straffed near Hengelo. 1 train pulled by three locos attacked E.9150, 2 locos dam.