In November attended Air Bombers Instructor’s Course and posted to Empire Air Armament School.

Served at RAF Bobbington/RAF Halfpenny Green, RAF Market Harborough, RAF Husbands Bosworth, RAF Scampton, RAF Swinderby, RAF Waddington, RAF Bardney, RAF Penrhos, RAF Manby.

Aircraft flown were Anson, Wellington, Stirling, Lancaster.

Stephens carried out 34 bombing operations (8 day, 26 night) to targets including Paris La Chapelle, Schweinfurt, Bordeaux, Saint-Médard-en-Jalles, Toulouse Saint-Martin-du-Touch, Bourg-Leopold, Tours, Duisburg, Brunswick, Nantes, Cherbourg, St. Martin de Varreville, Saumur, Pointe-du-Hoc, Argentan, Rennes, Aunay-sur-Odon, Aulnoye, Gelsenkirchen, Creil, St. Leu d’Esserent, Châtellerault, Nevers, Caen, Thiverny, Courtrai, Stuttgart, St. Cyr, Givors, Mont-Candon, Bois de Cassan, Etaples, Brest.
His pilot on operations was Flying Officer Hill.

On 7th June 1944 his aircraft was hit by ant-aircraft fire.
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