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Those long distance raids, to say Berlin, often meant Lancasters were stripped of excess equipment, such as armour plating, and given extra fuel tanks as you quote, but still they went with 7 imperial tons of bombs, the most any of the bombers during the European campaign could carry on such missions.
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Lancaster's were only stripped of the limited armour they had, when used to drop the grand slam, centre turrets were also removed, for a trip to the big city(Berlin) they flew as normal, when they bombed the Tirpitz, they flew up to lossiemouth, the bombs were tall boys, over range tanks were fitted, and larger merlin24,, this was the second time Lancaster's were lightened, the first when they flew to arrange archangel, in Russia for the first attempt on Tirpitz.
A brief outline.