He flew with a Avro Lancaster (type I, serial ME646, code AR-).
STRATEGIC OPERATIONS
(Eighth Air Force): 55 B-17s in Italy on the USSR shuttle mission join Fifteenth AF bombers in bombing marshalling yards at Arad, Rumania; 38 P-51s of the VIII Fighter Command, also on the shuttle run, fly escort on the mission.
TACTICAL OPERATIONS
(Ninth Air Force): In France, nearly 275 fighters strafe and bomb strongpoints, gun positions, a fuel dump, communication lines, bridges, and patrol the beach in the vicinity of Lessay and Periers, S of the US First Army's advance; HQ 358th Fighter Group and 365th Fighter Squadron move from High Halden, England to Cretteville with P-47s; the 30th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, 67th Tactical Reconnaissance Group, moves from Middle Wallop, England to Le Molay with F-5s; and the 382d Fighter Squadron, 363d Fighter Group, moves from Staplehurst, England to Maupertus with P-51s.
6 Mosquitos to Scholven/Buer and 4 to Homberg, 4 Stirlings minelaying off Brest, 24 aircraft on Resistance operations, 11 Mosquitos on flying-bomb patrols. No aircraft lost.
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