He flew with a de Havilland Mosquito (type XIX, serial TA396, code RS-).
STRATEGIC OPERATIONS
(Eighth Air Force): 2 missions are flown.
Mission 635: 178 P-47s and 149 P-51s are dispatched to bomb and strafe the Hannover-Bremen-Osnabruck areas and bomb Ahlhorn Airfield and the Mannheim- Kaiserslautern area, all in Germany; they claim 6-0-1 aircraft on the ground; 1 P-51 is lost and 10 damaged; 1 pilot is MIA.
Mission 636: 7 of 9 B-17s drop leaflets in France, Germany and the Netherlands during the night.
32 B-24s and C-47s are dispatched on CARPETBAGGER missions; 1 B-24 is lost.
TACTICAL OPERATIONS
(Ninth Air Force): In the Netherlands, 150+ B-26s and A-20s, escorted by fighters, attack the Bath dike and Arnemuiden road and rail embankment.
In France, fighters fly sweeps, and armed reconnaissance over Rastatt, Germany and Haguenau, and support the US Third Army's XII and XV Corps in repelling counterattacks in NE France; HQ IX Bomber Command is redesignated 9th Bombardment Division (Medium); the 353d Fighter Squadron, 354th Fighter Group, moves from Gael to Orconte with P-47s; the 404th Fighter Squadron, 371st Fighter Group, moves from Beuzeville to Perthes with P-47s; the 493d Fighter Squadron, 48th Fighter Group, moves from Villacoublay to Cambrai/Niergnies with P-47s; and the 596th Bombardment Squadron (Medium), 397th Bombardment Group (Medium), moves from Gorges to Dreux with B-26s.
In Belgium, HQ 67th Tactical Reconnaissance Group and the 107th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron move from Toussus le Noble, France to Gosselies with F-6s; the 153d Liaison Squadron, IX Tactical Air Command (attached to First Army), moves from Ham to Stree with L-5s; and the 422d Night Fighter Squadron, IX Air Defense Command, moves from Chateaudun, France to Florennes with P-61s;
490 aircraft - 310 Lancasters, 173 Halifaxes, 7 Mosquitos of Nos 1, 4, 6 and 8 Groups - to Kiel. 4 Halifaxes and 2 Lancasters lost. The evidence of returning crews and of photographs caused Bomber Command to record this as 'a highly concentrated raid' with 'the old town and modern shopping centre devastated'.
Support and 164 aircraft on a diversionary sweep over the North Sea, 27 Mosquitos to Berlin, 9 to Lübeck and 8 to Rheine airfield, 34 RCM sorties, 56 Mosquito patrols, 68 Halifaxes and Lancasters minelaying near Oslo, in the Kattegat and in the River Elbe. 5 aircraft lost - 3 Mosquitos and 1 Stir1ing of No 100 Group and 1 Mosquito from the Berlin raid.
Total effort for the night: 856 sorties, 11 aircraft (1.3 per cent) lost.
9 aircraft on RCM flights, 2 Mosquitos on Ranger patrols, 14 Stirlings and 4 Hudsons on Resistance operations. No aircraft lost.
Operation Market Garden: Bomber Command's main operations on this night were in support of the landings by British and American airborne troops at Arnhem and Nijmegen which took place the following morning. 200 Lancasters and 23 Mosquitos of Nos 1 and 8 Groups bombed the airfields at Hopsten, Leeuwarden, Steenwijk and Rheine, and 54 Lancasters and 5 Mosquitos of Nos 3 and 8 Groups bombed a flak position at Moerdijk. The runways of all the airfields were well cratered but there were only near misses at the flak position, although its approach road was cut. 2 Lancasters lost from the Moerdijk raid.
29 Mosquitos to Brunswick and 4 to Dortmund, 14 RCM sorties, 29 Mosquito patrols. 1 Mosquito lost from the Brunswick raid.
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