He flew with a Handley Page Halifax (type III, serial MZ935, code KN-Q).
STRATEGIC OPERATIONS
(Eighth Air Force): 2 missions are flown.
Mission 743: 413 B-17s are dispatched to hit the Unterturkheim marshalling yard (262) and Boblingen (94) and Echterdingen (25) Airfields at Stuttgart, Germany using GH; targets of opportunity are Halingen (10) and other (4); 1 B-17 is lost, 4 damaged beyond repair and 63 damaged; 3 airmen are WIA and 9 MIA.
Escorting are 247 P-47s and P-51s; they claim 1-0-0 aircraft without loss; 6 of 7 P-51s fly a scouting mission.
Mission 744: 4 B-17s and 7 B-24s drop leaflets in the Netherlands, France and Germany during the night without loss.
TACTICAL OPERATIONS
(Ninth Air Force): In Germany, 254 A-20s, A-26s, and B-26s bomb defended villages, storage depots, barracks area, and marshalling yard in W Germany; fighters escort the 9th Bombardment Division, sweep the Landau and Saarbrucken areas, attack Zulpich and a bridge at Euskirchen, and support the XII and XX Corps in the Sarreguemines, France and Saar River area and around Dillingen.
60 Mosquitos to Berlin, 8 to Koblenz and 4 to Meiderich (Duisburg) oil plant, 36 RCM sorties, 28 Mosquito patrols. 1 RCM Halifax lost.
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