Mission No. 18 to bomb German troop concentrations at “Royan”, France. An hour after we bombed French troops moved in to capture the Germans. We carried a full crew except the left waist gunner. The wing planes carried a minimum crew with a toggler. We carried a new kind of bomb. They were gasoline tanks filled with an incendiary compound. It will suffocate the oxygen out of the air. We did excellent bombing. We flew ship No. 820. We led the 3rd Squadron. We bombed visually at 15,000 feet. We carried four paper and two metal tank bombs and two smoke bombs. We flew eight hours and thirty-five minutes. No Flak.