Siren Tour
A Siren Tour was a night-time mission by the RAF Bomber Command, mostly in northern Cambridgeshire, involving three or four two-engined fast bomber aircraft, to set the German air-raid sirens off in the middle of the night, so waking up the whole German town at three o'clock in the morning. The purpose was to cause nuisance, and sleep deprivation.
History[edit]
The raids were carried out by RAF bases in Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, from the Light Night Striking Force. These were small bombing raids, often in the middle of the night, to get the population in the German town out of bed, to intentionally upset the nocturnal rhythm of the German factory workers.[1][2]
Although these were small raids, the raids were quite irritating for German people. The two-engined bomber aircraft were largely invincible from any attack, once the bomb was dropped, and could return back to Cambridgeshire at 400mph, being invisible to radar.
Operation[edit]
The raids apparently began on 30 November 1943, or thereabouts. There were around three aircraft in each raid, but with three or four targets. Each target would receive a 500lb bomb from the aircraft.[3]
Siren tours would continue throughout early 1945.