He flew with a Avro Lancaster (type III, serial ED560, code HW-).
6 Oboe Mosquitos bombed Essen, Rheinhausen and the German night-fighter airfield at St Trond; a map from Essen shows that bombs were dropped on the southern part of the Krupps factory. 4 Stirlings laid mines in the River Gironde and 2 OTU Wellingtons dropped leaflets over France. No aircraft lost.
377 aircraft - 131 Lancasters, 103 Halifaxes, 99 Wellingtons, 44 Stirlings - carried out the last large raid in this series on Lorient. 363 aircraft dropped mainly incendiary loads in clear visibility. 1 Lancaster lost.
Bomber Command had flown 1,853 sorties in 8 'area' raids in response to direct instructions from the Air Ministry against Lorient. 1,675 aircraft claimed to have bombed the port during these raids, dropping nearly 4,000 tons of bombs. 24 aircraft - 1.3 per cent of those dispatched - were lost. Few records are available from Lorient but it is known that the town was now almost completely ruined and deserted.
32 aircraft minelaying off Brest and St Nazaire, 4 OTU sorties. No losses.
Total effort for the night: 413 sorties, 1 aircraft (0.2 per cent) lost.
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