6 Group Unavailable
Took off from Linton-on-Ouse at 17:53 in Halifax Mk VIII (Sqn code: OW-K Bomber Command) on an operation to Soest Germany.
Shot down and crashed near Rheinberg Germany.
Sergeant Knoke RCAF was initially buried in Lohne Communal Cemetery. Reinterred 15 August 1947. (CWGC)
Sergeant McLaren RCAF and Flt Sergeant Popadiuk RCAF were part of Trupp 57. They arrived at Bankau on 3 January 1945. (The Long Road - Oliver Clutton-Brock)
Flt Lt Percy Gilbert Chipman RCAF - PoW/Stalag Luft 1 Barth Vogelsang/PoW Number 6640.
Fg Off Charles Leslie Shipman RCAF - PoW/Stalag Luft 1 Barth Vogelsang/PoW Number 6729
Fg Off Percy Harold Harris RCAF - PoW/Stalag Luft 1 Barth Vogelsang/PoW Number 6641.
Sergeant Donald Neil McLaren RCAF - PoW/Stalag Luft 7 Bankau near Kreuzburg Upper Silesia/Stalag 3A Luckenwalde/PoW Number 1339.
Flt Sergeant John Popadiuk RCAF - PoW/Stalag Luft 7 Bankau near Kreuzburg Upper Silesia/Stalag 3A Luckenwalde/PoW Number 1342
