On May 8, following the Rostock raids, Baker’s deputy, Sydney Bufton, also wrote to Harris with the evidence from plotted photographs that his attacks on Essen in March and again in April showed that 90 percent of bombs had fallen from between 5 and 100 miles from the Essen aiming point. Plots of twelve raids on Essen between March and June 1942 showed that in seven of them fewer than 5 percent of aircraft got within 3 miles. The raids on Rostock, which was easier to locate, being near the coast, showed that 78 percent of the photographs taken were not of the town.205
