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That mission was treated in an article I published on January 1995 on the Italian "JP4" magazine.

The mission involved, among the others, eighteen Lancasters of Sqn. 467 and Sqn. 207. Their objective was the bombardment of the electrical power plants of Brugherio (Milan), Cislago (Varese), Trezzo (Milan) and Traversetolo (Parma).

It was a "shuttle" mission with one-way-only route and landing in Algeria.

Two Lancasters were damaged by the one of the four Italian Do-217Js operating on that night and was the J-1 flown by ten. De Michelis of 233^ Squadriglia : the first to be attacked at 03.25 hrs was the one flown by Flight/Officer Carmichael (Sqn. 467) which sustained hits under the belly (which killed the navigator Sgt. Murray) followed a few minutes later by the Lanc flown by F/O Locke of the same unit, which received hits on the wing/fuselage attach pointa and was compelled to drop its load managing to evade its attacker and to reach Blida four hours later, effecting there a crash-landing which resulted in no losses but for the write-off of the bomber.

The second Dornier Do-217J-1 flown by Cap. Aramis Ammannato managed instead to intercept and to shoot down at 04.15 hrs the Lancaster III “EM-W” serial ED692 flown by P/O L. E. Stubbs after that the bomber had already dropped its load of thirteen 500 lbs bombs e ninety 4 lbs incendiaries on Cislago power plant. Only the dorsal gunner Sgt. W. O’Brien survived from the crash and was found almost unharmed among the wreckage laying on the shingle bed of river Ticino.

Considering the above data, it could be guessed that the "special" Target T.67 should have been the power plants already quoted.

HTH