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Date: July 25th 1943
Diary

[newspaper clipping titled:]

BIG BLITZ KEPT UP IN DAYLIGHT
After 2,00-tons Raid on Essen

[handwritten heading and note:]

HALIFAX “A”     25:7:43     NO. 8.
ESSEN      D.T.O. 5:10

B.D. T.D. 40640 LBS.

More concentrated than Saturday nights. Searchlights more active due to less cloud over the target.
Large fires and smoke up to over 21000 ft. Big explosions as we bombed.

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