He flew with a Vickers Wellington (type III, serial BK435, code QB-U).
20 Wellingtons laid mines in the Frisian Islands. 1 aircraft lost.
143 aircraft - 130 Lancasters, 7 Stirlings, 6 Halifaxes - dispatched to Bremen and 129 crews bombed, through cloud. No photographs were brought back because of the cloud. No aircraft were lost from this medium to large-sized raid.
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