He flew with a Handley Page Halifax (type III, serial MZ768, code KN-Q).
STRATEGIC OPERATIONS
(Eighth Air Force): With the conversion of the 55th Fighter Group from P-38s to P-51s, the Eighth acquires a majority of P-51 groups to provide longer-range high-altitude escort for the heavy bombers.
Conversion to P-51s will continue until by the end of the year every group except 1 will be equipped with them.
Mission 472: In a morning mission 319 of 359 B-17s drop 3,700 containers of supplies to French interior forces in S France; they claim 5-2-2 Luftwaffe aircraft; 15 B-17s are damaged.
Escort is provided by 465 P-47s and P-51s; they claim 4-0-1 Luftwaffe aircraft.
Mission 473: During the evening 131 B-24s are dispatched to hit airfields in France; 54 hit Montdidier Airfield and 39 hit Peronne Airfield; 9 B-24s are damaged.
40 other B-24s fail to bomb because of failure of blind-bombing equipment.
Escort is provided by 79 P-38s and P-51s; 1 P-38 is damaged beyond repair.
94 of 100 P-38s fly fighter-bomber missions against rail targets E and SE of Paris; they claim 2-0-0 Luftwaffe aircraft; 1 P-38 is lost (pilot is MIA).
TACTICAL OPERATIONS
(Ninth Air Force): In France, weather again curtails operations; 62 B-26s and A-20s, using Oboe, bomb a railway embankment at Bourth and rail bridge at Merey; fighters provide escort and fly armed reconnaissance over widespread areas of NW France, attacking bridges, trains, rail lines, and military transport targets; 85 enemy fighters give battle near Brezolles and Alencon; 6 fighters are claimed by US fighters, against 5 missing from the IX Fighter Command; the IX Tactical Air Command strafes and bombs defended positions ahead of the US First Army; and fighters cut rail lines in the L'Aigle-Alencon area, bomb troop concentrations near Periers, and marshalling yards at Chateaudun and Aube-sur-Rile.
4 Mosquitos to Homberg and Scholven/Buer, 4 Serrate patrols over Denmark, 6 Stirlings minelaying off Brest, 3 Halifaxes on Resistance operations. No aircraft lost.
19 Lancasters of No 8 Group attacked the flying-bomb site at St Philibert Ferme through thick cloud and 4 Mosquitos flew Ranger patrols to Northern Germany and Denmark. No aircraft lost.
242 Lancasters and 11 Mosquitos of Nos 1, 5 and 8 Groups to attack the railway yards at Revigny and Villeneuve. The raid on Villeneuve was carried out and the railways were hit, though much of the bombing fell to the east of the target. The raid to Revigny was abandoned because the railway yards could not be identified. 7 Lancasters lost from the Revigny raid.
115 aircraft - 101 Halifaxes, 10 Mosquitos, 4 Lancasters - of 4, 6 and 8 Groups attacked V-weapons sites at Anderbelck and Les Landes. Anderbelck was accurately bombed in good visibility but the bombing at Les Landes was through 10/10ths cloud.
Support and 132 aircraft on a diversionary sweep over the North Sea, 42 Mosquitos to Hannover, 35 RCM sorties, 56 Mosquito patrols, 8 Stirlings minelaying off Biscay ports. 1 Mosquito of No 100 Group lost.
Total effort for the night: 641 sorties, 8 aircraft (1.3 per cent) lost.
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