Operation Exodus (WWII operation)
Operation Exodus was a large-scale airlift conducted by the Royal Air Force in April and May 1945 to repatriate British prisoners of war liberated in the closing stages of the Second World War. Planned and executed by RAF Bomber Command, the operation used modified Avro Lancaster heavy bombers and other aircraft to collect former prisoners from airfields in Germany, Belgium and France and return them to reception centres in the United Kingdom. By early May, up to five hundred men a day were passing through the main collection airfield at Juvincourt, and by the end of the month a total of around 3,500 flights had returned approximately 75,000 former prisoners to Britain. Although the operation was completed successfully, two aircraft were lost in accidents, resulting in sixty-one fatalities.
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23552 Lübeck, Innenstadt (Innenstadt)
Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
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