4th Mission
2300 [Gallons]
Dulmen, Germany
Storage Tanks [Target]  Fair hits.  Take [off] 9:47 to 2:38.  3 hours on oxygen. 1 ½ hours over enemy territory.  Around 20 bursts of flak off our left wing 150 to 200 yards away [at] our level.  Altitude 20,000 feet.  No fighter opposition.  38’s and 51’s [P-38 and P-51] fighter cover.  Sure glad to see them.  Powell’s first mission in nose turret.  No damage.  One plane from another squad came in our formation with #3 feathered.  Got back ok.  Now only 31. 

Took off day operation, getting training for nite [night] missions.  None of the crew like it.  Keeping all details under their hats.  No one knows just what we’re going to do.  Talk of breaking the crew up and making a 7 man crew for the nite missions.  We know we won’t carry bomb, leaflet or supplys.  Talk of PFF (Path Finder Force).  Put us on day operation and nite.  Group stood down for 10 days or more for trucking missions to France.