6 Bomber Group June 21/22, 1943
44 Halifaxes from 408, 419, 427, and 428 Squadrons were joined by 42 Wellingtons from 429, 431, and 432 Squadrons on an attack at Krefeld. The crews were over the target at between 16,000 and 19,500 feet, releasing 124,000 lbs of high explosives and 253,000 lbs of incendiaries. According to reports, the bombing was accurate and severe damage was caused. Richard Koval (6bombergroup.ca)
35 Madras Presidency Squadron (Una animo agimus), Pathfinder Force, RAF Graveley. Halifax B Mk II aircraft BB 361 TL-V lost near the Frisian Islands, Netherlands outbound for an operation against targets in Krefeld, Germany. There was a claim from Flak of Marine Flakabeteilung 808 for this aircraft loss but it was more likely night fighter pilot Hauptmann Franz Buschmann of 12/NJG1 that shot BB 361 down. The Halifax crashed into the North Sea 25 km west of Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Netherlands with the loss of the entire crew
Pilot Officer James Wesley Andrews (RCAF), Warrant Officer 2nd Class Neil Thomas MacAulay (RCAF), Sergeant Frederick Vernon Barnard (RAFVR), Sergeant David John Jones (RAFVR), Sergeant Reginald Arthur Muldoon (RAFVR), Sergeant William Downie Robertson (RAFVR) and Sergeant Robert Matthew Scott (RAF) were all missing, believed killed in action. Warrant Officer MacAulay's body washed ashore 1943-09-07 and was buried at at the Texel (Den Burg) Cemetery, Netherlands
The remaining missing crewmembers have no known grave and all are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 Part 1, 1 January - 22 June by Theo Boiten page 127
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