He flew with a de Havilland Mosquito (type IV, serial DZ313, code GB-E).
19 October 1942 (Eighth Air Force:) HQ VIII Air Support Command moves from Membury to Sunninghill Park, Berkshire, England.
20 October 1942 (Eighth Air Force:) Lieutenant General Dwight D Eisenhower issues a directive reflecting the immediate urgency of Operation TORCH (plan for the Allied landings in N and NW Africa in Nov 42) as the currently important item of Allied strategy and requiring the Eighth AF, as a matter of first priority, to protect the movement of men and supplies from the UK to N Africa by attacking German submarine bases on the W coast of France, with shipping docks on the French W coast as a secondary targets for these missions and with German aircraft factories and depots in France as second priority.
6 Mosquitos to individual German targets; 2 aircraft bombed at Bremen and 1 at Minden. 1 Mosquito lost.
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