What WWII fighter raid did my great-uncle misremember?
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RAF Operations Record Books (ORBs) are available at The National Archives; 130 Squadron's ORB for November 1944 is: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8387862 (a free download for registered users at the time of writing). Usually there would be both a Form 540 (general summary of events) and a Form 541 (detailed records of events), but it seems most of the Form 541s are missing.
There doesn't appear to be anything corresponding to a precision raid in that month, just a number of armed reconnaissance missions (searching and attacking targets of opportunity).
130 Squadron was part of the 2nd Tactical Air Force (TAF). Christopher Shores and Chris Thomas wrote a very comprehensive three-volume history of the 2nd TAF and there were at least two precision fighter-bomber raids in November 1944 against targets in the Netherlands: the Amsterdam Gestapo HQ on November 26th and the Rotterdam Gestapo HQ on November 29th. They don't quite match the description (the buildings were bombed in both cases rather than specific floors targeted), and they were flown by the Hawker Typhoons of 146 Wing rather than Spitfires. As per your comment it sounds like a conflation of the earlier Eindhoven raids with 146 Wing's pinpoint attacks.
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