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He flew with a de Havilland Mosquito (type IV, serial DK309, code GB-).
Campaign report of the USAAF:
(8th Air Force): 11th Troop Carrier Squadron, 60th Troop Carrier Group, moves from Chelveston to Aldermaston, England with C-47s.
Campaign report of the RAF:
15 August 1942
1 Mosquito to Mainz was lost.
15/16 August 1942
Düsseldorf
131 aircraft of 5 types. 4 aircraft - 2 Lancasters, 1 Hampden, 1 Wellington - lost.
Visibility was poor and the bombing was scattered. Düsseldorf and Neuss reports only a light raid, the most serious incident being in the centre of Neuss where a 4,000lb bomb caused much blast damage to buildings. 1 person was killed in Neuss, none in Düsseldorf; 13 people were injured. No industrial production of any kind was lost as a result of this raid.
9 aircraft laid mines in the Frisians. 1 Stirling lost.
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