426 Thunderbird Squadron (On Wings of Fire). Halifax aircraft LW 209 took off from Linton-on-Ouse at 02:46 in Halifax Mark VII (Sqn code: OW-Y Bomber Command) on an operation to Duisburg Germany. Shot down by flak, crash site not found.
Killed: Flying Officer Edward George Fox RCAF J/40225 KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery grave 13. G. 15. Pilot Officer John Isaac Hoyle RAF KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery grave 13. G. 16.
Fg Off Thomas Lawrence Layman RCAF was captured on 21 December 1944 at Wesel.- PoW/Stalag Luft 1 Barth Vogelsang/PoW Number?
Fg Off Gordon Wilson Law RCAF -was captured on 18 December 1944 at Dinslaken near Duisburg. PoW/Stalag Luft 1 Barth Vogelsang/PoW Number 6883.
Fg Off John Patrick Mahoney RCAF - was captured on 18 December 1944 at Duisburg. PoW/Holmark Hospital near Frankfurt/ Stalag IX-C Obermassfield Reserve Lazaret/Stalag VII-B Memmingen/PoW Number?
Flt Sergeant Hugh Thomson Campbell RCAF was captured on 23 December 1944 at Wesel. - PoW/Stalag Luft 7 Bankau near Kreuzburg Upper Silesia/Stalag 3A Luckenwalde/PoW Number?
Flt Sergeant Willard Calvin Downey RCAF - PoW/Stalag Luft 7 Bankau near Kreuzburg Upper Silesia/Stalag 3A Luckenwalde/PoW Number 1360