 Each Mosquito was to drop eight marker flares and a minimum bomb load.Fighter Command provided 28 Mosquito and ten Beaufighter intruders from 25, 141, 410, 418 and 605 squadrons in two waves, to attack "Luftwaffe" airfields at Ardorf, Stade, Jagel, Westerland and Grove, to catch night fighters taking-off and landing.Eight Handley Page Halifaxes exploited the full moon to fly supply sorties to Europe, some to the Danish resistance movement, covered by the flight of the Main Force.