All bombers returned to base, although one had been hit by 27 bullets, many hitting the fuel tanks.

Around 02:00 in the morning on March 17, 1945, the last bombers returned to base.

Forty-three bombers (6.7 percent of the force) do not return.

Eighteen bombers (5.6 percent of the force) do not return.

The bomber returned, dropped two more near misses; then turned and ran.

However, soon after the first air raid was repelled, the German bombers returned, around 6 pm.

Twenty-four bombers do not return, a 4.6 percent loss rate.

Two bombers failed to do and returned to base.

Close to 100 bombers would not return home.

It would still be burning long after the bombers had returned to England.