6 Bomber Group May 5/6 1944
18 Halifaxes from 428 and 433 Squadrons were ordered on a mining operation to Brest, Morlaix, St. Malo, Le Havre, and Cherbourg. The crews were over the garden at between 8,000 and 15,000 feet sowing 36@1,500 lb mines. Richard Koval (6bombergroup.ca)
194 Squadron RAF (Surrigere colligere) "The Friendly Firm" RAF Agartala. Dakota III aircraft FZ 599 S took off from Broadway, a secret Chindit airstrip in Burma with four aircrew, and a full load of troops along with four mules, for the pupose of evacuating them to Chandina airstrip, Burma. The aircraft disappeared in a storm en-route with the loss of all aboard. The crash site was located in position 23.42.30 N and 091.35.30 E and identified as Dakota FZ 599 a month later on a hillside near Ampi, Tripura, India
Flying Officer Clare Kenneth Thain (RCAF), Pilot officer Ross Wilson Jeffries (RAAF), Flight Lieutenant Peter William Henry Wood (RAFVR) and Sergeant Robert Roberts (RAFVR) were all killed in action. The names of the troops aboard the aircraft were not found. The crew remains were not recovered from the remote jungle location of the crash but they are commemorated on the Singapore Memorial
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