Allied Attacks
| Site | "No-ball" number |
Bombing date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abbeville/Amiens | 22/23 December 1943 | 51 aircraft attacked 2 flying-bomb sites between Abbeville and Amiens. One was destroyed, but the other was not located. | |
| Abbeville/Amiens | 28 August 1944 | The Amiens ("Wemars/Cappel") site was attacked. | |
| Abbeville (Flixecourt) | 1943-12-16 December 16/17, 1943 | 9 Avro Lancasters of No. 617 Squadron RAF attacked the "Abbeville site in a wood at Flixecourt" and dropped their 12,000 lb bombs accurately on the markers placed by the only Oboe-equipped Mosquito operating at this target. The markers were 350 yards from the target and none of the bombs were within l00 yards of the markers. No aircraft lost. | |
| Abbeville (Gorenflos) | 23 December 1943 | Near Abbeville, the 401 BG bombed the Gorenflos No-ball target. | |
| Abbeville (Gorenflos) | 18 March 1944 | ||
| Abbeville (Gorenflos) | 9 April 1944 | ||
| Abbeville (Gorenflos) | 10 April 1944 | The 457 BG bombed the Gorenflos No-ball site. | |
| Abbeville (Gorenflos) | 9 June 1944 | ||
| Abbeville (Tilley-le-Haut) | 1943-12-16 December 16/17, 1943 | 26 Short Stirlings attacked the "Tilley-le-Haut site near Abbeville2 but failed because the Pathfinder markers of the Oboe-equipped de Havilland Mosquito were no closer than 450 yards from the small target. No aircraft lost. | |
| Acque | 19 July 1944 | 6 RAF Mosquitos on a diversionary raid bombed the Scholven/Buer and Wessling synthetic oil plants, railway junctions at Aulnoye and Revigny and "a flying-bomb launching site at Acque". | |
| Ailly-le-Vieux-Clocher | 27 | 22/23 December 1943 | The flying bomb site at Ailly was attacked without loss. |
| Ailly-le-Vieux-Clocher | 27 | 14/15 January 1944 | |
| Beauvais | 24 & 25 April 1944 | The 397 BG bombed the Beauvoir V-1 site. | |
| Beauvais | 16 May 1944 | The Normandy V-1 storage site at Beauvais was bombed. | |
| Beauvais | 1944-06-11 | The 466 BS bombed the Beauvais V-1 storage depot. | |
| Beauvais | 1944-06-14, 15, & 16 | The Beauvais V-1 storage depot was bombed. | |
| Belloy-Sur-Somme | 1944-07-06 | The 487 BG bombed the V-Weapon site. | |
| Bois Carré near Yvrench | 10 February 1944 | The 387 BG bombed the "Yorench-Bois Carre V-1 site" | |
| Bonneton le Faubourg ski site | 1943-12-22/23 | 82 aircraft attacked flying bomb sites at Ailly, Bonneton and Bristillerie without loss. | |
| Bonneton le Faubourg ski site | 1944-01-14/15 | ||
| Bristillerie | 1943-12-22/23 | 82 aircraft attacked flying bomb sites at Ailly, Bonneton and Bristillerie without loss. | |
| Bristillerie | 1944-01-04/05 | ||
| Bristillerie | 1944-01-14/15 | ||
| Bouillancourt | 1944-04-1313 April 1944 | "Bouillancourt, near le Tréport", was attacked by No. 602 Squadron RAF and No. 132 Squadron RAF | |
| Creil | 1944-07-02 | The Creil storage depot was bombed. July 2, 1944 | |
| Bois de la Justice | 74 | 1944-02-28 February 28, 1944 | 447 BG |
| Bois de la Justice | 74 | 1944-03-13 March 13, 1944 | 447 BG |
| Droinville | 50 | 1943-12-24 December 24, 1943 | 447 BG |
| Grand Parc | 107 | 1944-01-14 January 14, 1944 | 447 BG |
| Grand Parc | 107 | 1944-01-21 January 21, 1944 | 447 BG |
| Herbouville | 1944-01-27/28 | ||
| Herbouville | 1944-01-29/30 | 22 Mosquitos attacked the Herbouville flying-bomb site and Duisburg. | |
| La Briqueterie & Val-des-Joncs | 1944-08-02 | The 487 BG bombed the V-Weapon sites. | |
| Laloge Au Pain | 1944-07-088 July 1944 | The 487 BG bombed the V-Weapon site. | |
| Ligercourt | 1944-04-1616 April 1944 | The "heavily-defended ramp and bunkers at Ligercourt" were bombed in the "forest of Crécy near Abbeville." | |
| Ligescourt | 1943-12-055 December 1943 | B-26s of the Ninth Air Force attacked three V-1 ski sites near Ligescourt-Bois de St. Saulve, the first No-Ball mission. | |
| Lottinghen | 1944-03-1313 March 1944 | Ninth Air Force: 40 B-26s attacked a "V-weapon site at Lottinghen/Les Grands Bois", France; 37 abort due to bad weather. | |
| Maisoncelle | 1944-06-011 June 1944 | Bomber 41-20847 attacked the Maisoncelle. | |
| Oisemont Neuville-au-Bois | 1944-06-2020 June 1944 | ||
| Oisemont | 1944-06-2121 June 1944 | ||
| Oisemont | 1944-06-2323 June 1944 | ||
| Oisemont | 1944-06-3030 June 1944 | ||
| Oisemont | 1944-07-011 July 1944 | ||
| Söttevast | 1944-02-29 February 29/March 1, 1944 | 1 Mosquito to a "flying-bomb site at Sottevaast " | |
| Söttevast | 1944-03-03 March 3/4, 1944 | 2 Mosquitos to the "Sottevaast flying-bomb site" | |
| Söttevast | 5 May 1944 | ||
| Saint-Martin-l'Hortier | 17 June 1944 | ||
| Saint-Martin-l'Hortier | 21 June 1944 | ||
| Saint-Martin-l'Hortier | 1 July 1944 |
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