6 Group Unavailable
288 aircraft - 202 Halifaxes, 74 Lancasters, 12 Mosquitoes - of 6 and 8 Groups. 3 Halifaxes and I Lancaster lost.,
The target area was cloud-covered and the bombing was not concentrated. 36 houses were destroyed in Oberhausen and 4 people were killed but other places in tho Ruhr may have been hit as well.
source: The Bomber Command War Diaries, Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt
Halifax III aircraft MZ 376 QB-K missing during a night operation to Oberhausen, Germany, crashing at Echt, Netherlands, cause unknown.
Claim by Fw Hans-Eugen von Gienanth Stab IV/NJG1 - Maastricht - Sittard area (NM): 2,300m at 20:48. Crashed Heerdstraat at Echt. (Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 Part 5 - Theo Boiten)
source: John Jones
Pilot Officer A Jacobs (RCAF) Flying Officer J Fraser (RCAF), Pilot Officer W Yunsko (RCAF), Pilot Officer WJC Gibson (RCAF), Pilot Officer RJ Kay (RCAF), and FS HW Botterill (RCAF) and Sergeant GE Vernon (RAFVR) were killed (R Koval).
