In the Spring of 1944 the RAF Bomber Command of the Allied Forces prepared the landing in Normandy by nightbombing railway facilities in Belgium. On Thursday the 27th of April, 144 bombers consisting of 120 Halifaxes, 16 Lancasters and 8 Mosquitos left their airfields. They had to attack the rai l way yards at Montzen Belgium, only ten kilometers from Aachen, Germany.
(Aircrew Remembered)