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File:Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. CH11401.jpg

| date = 1943-10-22
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Following their briefing, [[:en:Handley Page Halifax|Handley Page Halifax]] crews of [[:en:No. 76 Squadron RAF|No. 76 Squadron RAF]] board their transports at [[:en:RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor|Holme-on-Spalding-Moor]], Yorkshire, to be driven to their dispersals in preparation for a raid on Kassel, Germany. This raid, on 22/23 October 1943, was the most devastating delivered on a German city since the 'firestorm' raid on Hamburg in the previous July. Of the 569 aircraft used in the attack, 43 were lost, of which 25 were Halifaxes.}}

Following their briefing, [[:en:Handley Page Halifax|Handley Page Halifax]] crews of [[:en:No. 76 Squadron RAF|No. 76 Squadron RAF]] board their transports at [[:en:RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor|Holme-on-Spalding-Moor]], Yorkshire, to be driven to their dispersals in preparation for a raid on Kassel, Germany. This raid, on 22/23 October 1943, was the most devastating delivered on a German city since the 'firestorm' raid on Hamburg in the previous July. Of the 569 aircraft used in the attack, 43 were lost, of which 25 were Halifaxes.}}

| author = Royal Air Force official photographer

| author = Royal Air Force official photographer
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| date = {{between|1942|1945}}
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| date = 1943-10-22

| catalogue_number = CH 11401

| catalogue_number = CH 11401

| database_number = 205210462

| database_number = 205210462

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