My father was shot down on a raid to Kassel, and their route was straight in from Yorkshire leaving the coast near Bridlington, and meeting the stream mid North Sea and on into Germany. Indeed during the Battle of Berlin bombers were routed over Denmark and even Sweden in an effort to avoid German defences on some raids. The bomber routes would vary as has been said due to location of target and also the needs of Bomber command to avoid flak concentration and night fighter beacons, and stations if possible. A lot depends on where in Germany they were going as it is a fare size country by European standards and indeed was even bigger then.
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