He flew with a Avro Lancaster (type III, serial ED626, code PM-G).
12 Mosquitos bombed a power-station and railway yards at Trier. Both targets were hit.
A lone Lancaster of No 103 Squadron, again piloted by Squadron Leader C O'Donoghue, set out to bomb the town of Emmerich just over the German border, but the Lancaster was shot down over Holland and the crew were all killed.
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