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