He flew with a Handley Page Halifax (type V, serial LL122, code KN-Y).
10 December 1943
STRATEGIC OPERATIONS
(Eighth Air Force): VIII Bomber Command Mission 150: 1 B-17 is dispatched on an OBOE test flight but turns back due to an oxygen leak; two 2,000 pound (907 kg) bombs and a Photoflash are jettisoned off the French coast. In the second part of this mission, 6 of 6 B-17's drop 1.2 million leaflets on Rouen, Paris, Caen and Amiens, France and Ghent, Belgium at 2026-2102 hours. No losses. HQ 2d Bombardment Division transfers from Horsham St Faith to Ketteringham Hall, England.
TACTICAL OPERATIONS
(Ninth Air Force): 20 German aircraft attack 4 Ninth Air Force airfields in the UK (Gosfield, Andrews Field, Earls Colne, and Great Dunmow), killing 8 and wounding 20+ men. HQ 434th Troop Carrier Group and it's 71st, 72d, 73d and 74th transfer from Fulbeck to Welford Park, England with C-47's.
3 Wellingtons flew RCM sorties without loss.
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