Dsrsia, your 2nd post.
Thanks for coming back to us - your precis has only whet our appetites for more details from the logbooks of course!
So your father flew Mossies. as a Pathfinder on No. 162 Squadron and survived 30 ops. - great stuff. I wonder if he found this more, or less, hazardous than his two and a half years instructing in the tired and often obsolete machines that the training units had to put up with - to say nothing of the surprises that the students could provide.
My Godfather was a Pathfinder Nav. on Lancs. and flew on 17 ops. with No. 83 Squadron (P.F.F.) between 28 Oct. 44 and 25 April 45. He had previously done 13 Main Force ops. 12 June-11 Aug 44 with No. 44 (Rhodesia) Squadron.
As I said, do please, when you have a minute, relate some of the logbook entries for our readership - for they are real history that must not be allowed to fade into obscurity.
Ian BB