The 12 Sqdn left from Wickenby at 1943-01-09 at 18:57
He flew with a Avro Lancaster (type I, serial W4371, code PH-C).
Campaign report of the USAAF:
(Eighth Air Force): Six Spitfire Mk Vs of the 4th Fighter Group are dispatched to patrol the coast line.
Campaign report of the RAF:
8/9 January 1943
3 Mosquitos of the Pathfinders, now officially designated as No 8 Group, and 38 Lancasters of No 5 Group attack Duisburg. (The terms 'No 8 Group' and 'Pathfinders' are quite interchangeable.) 3 Lancasters lost.
73 aircraft minelaying off the Danish and German coasts; 2 minelaying Lancasters were lost.
9 January 1943
12 Venturas dispatched to Ijmuiden steelworks, 12 Bostons to Abbeville airfields and 7 Mosquitos to railway targets at Mons and Rouen. The Abbeville force was recalled but all other targets were bombed. 1 Mosquito lost.
9/10 January 1943
Essen attacked 2 Pathfinder Mosquitos and 50 Lancasters of No 5 Group. 3 Lancasters lost.
Essen reports concentrated bombing in or near the centre with 127 buildings destroyed or seriously damaged and 28 people killed.
121 aircraft - 78 Halifaxes, 41 Wellingtons, 2 Stirlings - on a large minelaying operation in the Frisians, the German Bight and the Kattegat. 97 aircraft reported laying mines in the designated areas. 4 Halifaxes lost.
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