No. 106 Squadron RAF No 106 started replacing them with Lancasters (but it did not become converted completely to Lancasters before some of the squadron's Manchesters had participated in the 1,000-bomber raids on Cologne, Essen and Bremen). In October it contributed 10 Lancasters to No. 5 Group's low-level epic dusk raid ("Operation Robinson") on Le Creusot and two more (one of them piloted by Wing Commander Guy Gibson who was then No 106's CO) to the subsidiary raid on Montchanin. In 1943 it took part in the first "shuttle-bombing" raids (when the targets were Friedrichshafen and Spezia) and the famous attack on Peenemünde. Among
Thousand-bomber raids but the number of 1,000 not being claimed again. Thousand-bomber raids The term "thousand-bomber raid" was used to describe three night bombing raids by the Royal Air Force against German cities in summer 1942 during World War II. The term was a propaganda device, whereby Arthur Harris included the relatively few modern four-engined "heavy" bombers that were currently operational, but mostly 1930s-era twin-engine "medium" bombers and many otherwise unsuitable small bombers and trainee aircrews in the raids to accumulate a force of 1,000 bombers as a demonstration of the RAF's growing power. Later RAF raids concentrated on effectiveness rather than