Hop'N Mad! Mission 97 AAR : Calais

HOP'N MAD!
Mission 97
Target: Calais — Military Installations
Date: Sept. 1, 1944

To Target: No encounters

Target: Bomb run on target; 30%

No flak hits; Bomb Run on, and 20% On Target

Return: As we left the target a Me-110 attacked; shot away the starboard rudder controls and put rounds into both wings, but none had any serious effect. On his second pass mid upper blow him away.

E/A shot down or damaged: 1 Me-110 destroyed by mid-upper, Sgt. Paul Monksford

Crew: No casualties

(Signed) F/O Harry Maguire, Pilot


Pilot: F/O Harry Maguire
Bomb aimer: Sgt. Terrence Reilly
Flight engineer: P/O Henry Beams
Navigator: P/O Roger Skelton
W/O operator: Sgt. Thomas Herald
Mid-upper gunner: Sgt. Paul Monksford
Tail gunner: Sgt. Tim Ritter