and rostock were two of harris's early triumphs the targets chosen were close to britain and poorly defended. but harris wanted more his next target was supposed to be hamburg but paul whether their forced him to shift his sights to cologne and its seven hundred thousand inhabitants. or succeeded in getting all of the england sand for supported his disposal and all of the available pilots including instructors. the operation by the codename millennium. on the night of may thirtieth nine hundred forty two more than a thousand bombers took off from english bases. never before had