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Anyone any idea what that mission was? The seven members of 148 Squadron - two British men and five Canadians - took off on 4 August, 1944, to carry out a special operation over southern Poland.
Arms drop? True, I was thinking of support for the Warsaw Uprising and checked it against the timeline here. That would make sense. Equipped with specially modified Halifax aircraft, the Squadron was heavily engaged in Special Operations executive operations supplying the partisans in the Balkans, Northern Italy and elsewhere, including support of the Warsaw uprising of 1944 148 Squadron world war 2
It all points a partisan support operation.Brindisi was used as a base rather then overflying German territory. Stalin at the time did not show any interest in the Polish uprisings for reasons that are recorded in history.
