Lysander Pick Up by Graeme Lothian (AP) SQN242 'Operation Luttich' was the code

'Operation Luttich' was the code name given to this last major German counterattack in Normandy

Looking skyward a German sentry caught sight of parachutes floating down

but they remained generally undetected at their low altitude

The Morning Watch

Then in conjunction with the 12th SS Hitlerjugend Division to the north the operation was launched and the bridgehead successfully crushed

Lysander Pick Up by Graeme Lothian (AP) SQN242 'Operation Luttich' was the codeDHM1155AP. Lysander Pick Up by Graeme Lothian. A Lysander of 161 Squadron from RAF Tempsford banks to port as it circles a field somewhere in France 1943. These missions only took place on or around the full moon period to pick up or drop off SOE agents with the help of the Resistance. 161 Squadron, the most secret of all RAF squadrons, had in its flight, Lysanders, Hudsons, and Halifaxes which carried out parachute operations. Two of 161s top pilots