A Dornier Do 217K2 with a Henschel Hs 293 under the starboard wing (at left) and a Fritz X under the port
wing (at right). The aircraft which carried out the raid on 29 January 1944, were probably Dornier Do 217E
of 2. Fliegar-Division, Kampfgeschwader 100 then based in Toulouse under ObLt Bernhard Jope.

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