sidering the circumstances is

plausible. Later, while returning he resumed the communication with the Flight Control and has never commented

on anything out of ordinary in

terms of the communication.

Morlaix disaster cost S/L Tony

Gaze the position and rank.

Until the end war he served

with various squadrons usually as a flight leader with

the rank of Flight Lieutenant. Tony Gaze blamed 11th

Group, Flight Control and the

meteorological service for

the poor mission preparation

and considered himself a scapegoat of the botched operation. His opinion is usually

accepted by the authors of

the articles dealing with this

event. Question is if this is

justified. The series of events

really points to not fully competent handling of the whole

mission and certain cover up

on both Tony Gaze‘s and American side as well.

B-17E, 41-9023, of the 97th Bomb Group being serviced by ground crew. This unit´s mission for September 26th, 1942 was to

attack the main target of the mission – the airport at Ploujean-Morlaix. Due to overcast above the target area and miscalculated tail wind, the group turned back over Biscay (Photo: IWM).

The 92nd Bomb Group was the only one of three bombardment groups involved in Mission No. 12 that successfully located

and attacked its target on September 26th, 1942. The Cherbourg Air Base was bombed by 16 of their 30 B-17Es (Photo: IWM).

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