The battle then moved rapidly eastward and by the end of August the Typhoon wing at Lantheuil was out of range of the bomb-line. Among the last attacks carried out from the Norman base were two strikes at Mailleraye-sur-Seine, where enemy troops and vehicles were queued up waiting to be ferried across the river. Diving through an intense barrage of flak, the pilots hit a petrol dump, which exploded in a great sheet of flame

 

Tiffies on the ramp (Photo: DND Internet site)