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 lthe Ruhr may have been hit as well.source: The Bomber Command War Diaries, Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt
Took off from Tholthorpe at 16:56 in Halifax Mark III LW239 (Sqn code: KW-D Bomber Command) on an operation to Oberhausen Germany.
Shot down by a night fighter, out-bound and crashed at Labbeck, Sonsbeck, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany.
Claim by Lt Kurt Matzak Stab IV/NJG1 - near Bonninghardt - Geldern (KN 9): 3,000m at 20:41. (Crashed Labbeck in Grid Square KN 41 at 20:41) (Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 Part 5 - Theo Boiten)
Killed: Pilot Officer Joseph William Savoie RCAF J/92471 KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery grave 25. G. 16.
POWs: Flight Sergeant J Alfred Marcel Robert Carrier RCAF R/180936 POW Stalag Luft 7 Bankau. Pilot Officer Jean Paul Crispin RCAF J/89603 POW Stalag Luft 3 Sagan & Belaria PoW Number 8933.. F/Lt Maurice Joseph Dugas RCAF J/12555 POW Stalag Luft 1 Barth Vogelsang/PoW Number 6363.. Flight Sergeant Joseph Sebastian Federico RCAF R/151371 POW Stalag Luft 7 Bankau . Flight Sergeant Frederick George Hull RCAF R/206354 POW camp not listed. Warrant Officer Class 2 Joseph Alban Ranger RCAF R/158728 POW Stalag Luft 7 Bankau . Flying Officer Joseph Geoffrey St. Arnaud RCAF J/28698 POW Stalag Luft L3 Sagan and Belaria. F/Lt Harry James Goodwin RAF POW Stalag Luft L3 Sagan and Belaria.source: John Jones
Report of a Forced March Made by Occupants of Stalag Luft 7
The evacuation of Stalag Luft 7, Bankau Germany