I learned later from the BBC news that on that day, 17th April, a top secret and meticulously planned attack had been carried out by twelve Lancasters on a diesel engine works in Augsburg ...

But the low-level, precision raid, using the newly introduced Lancaster ... The target was a factory in Augsburg, in the south of Germany, which made engines for submarines.

More than 50,000 residents from the German city of Augsburg were evacuated from their ... explosive is thought to have come from a 1944 air raid, which destroyed the old town.

I learned later from the BBC news that on that day, 17th April, a top secret and meticulously planned attack had been carried out by twelve Lancasters on a diesel engine works in Augsburg ...