He flew with a Avro Lancaster (type III, serial ND856, code OL-E).
STRATEGIC OPERATIONS
(Eighth Air Force): Mission 498: 26 B-17s are dispatched to hit coastal batteries at Ostend and Cap Gris Nez/Calais area but weather prevented bombing.
In Belgium, of 120 B-24s, 34 hit a Luftwaffe communication center at Brussels/Vilvorde, 20 hit a coastal battery at Gravelines, 11 hit oil installations and industrial plants at Ghent and 1 hits a target of opportunity; 1 B-24 is damaged beyond repair and 32 damaged.
Escort is provided by 154 P-38s, P-47s and P-51; they claim 1-0-0 aircraft on the ground; 1 P-51 is lost (pilot is MIA).
Mission 499: 193 P-38s, P-47s and P-51s fly fighter-bomber mission against rail traffic S of Rouen and Amiens; they claim 0-0-1 aircraft on the ground; 2 P-38s and 1 P-51 are lost (pilots are MIA); 1 P-51 is damaged beyond repair and 2 P-47s are damaged.
Mission 500: 7 of 7 B-17s drop leaflets in the Netherlands and France during the night.
TACTICAL OPERATIONS
(Ninth Air Force): In France, bad weather causes the recall of B-26s and A-20s sent to bomb Loire and Seine River bridges; fighters attack rail lines, enemy installations and movements NW and SW of Paris, and bomb gun positions and other military targets in the Coutances- Saint-Lo area in support of US ground forces which break through W of Saint- Lo; the 393d and 394th Fighter Squadrons, 367th Fighter Group, move from Ibsley, England to Crettevile with P-38s; and the 512th and 514th Fighter Squadrons, 406th Fighter Group, move from Ashford, England to Tour-en-Bassin with P-47s.
178 Lancasters and 9 Mosquitos of No 5 Group carried out an accurate attack on the railway yards at Givors. 4 Lancasters and 2 Mosquitos lost.
30 Mosquitos to Hamburg, 11 to Somain and 2 to Saarbrücken, 6 RCM sorties, 23 Mosquito patrols, 6 Lancasters minelaying off Heligoland, 6 aircraft on Resistance operations. 1 Mosquito lost from the Hamburg raid.
72 aircraft - 36 Lancasters, 24 Stirlings, 12 Mosquitos - of Nos 3 and 8 Groups attacked 5 V-weapon sites without loss. All targets were cloud-covered and most of the bombing was 'confused and scattered'. Some of the Stirlings on this raid, from No 218 Squadron, were fitted with the G-H blind-bombing device and they used this in the attack on one of the sites; this was the first use of the 'G-H leader' technique.
30 Mosquitos to Stuttgart and 12 aircraft on Resistance operations. No aircraft lost.
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