6 Group Unavailable
Took off from Linton-on-Ouse at 15:20 in Halifax Mark VII (Sqn code: EQ-H Bomber Command) .for an operation against the oil plant at Castrop-Rauxel.
The aircraft was shot down by a night fighter and crashed at Hochdahl Trills, at Erkrath, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany.
Claim by Hptm Fritz Lau 4/NJG1 - Radevormwald South West of Bochum (MP 1): 4,000m at 19:11. (Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 Part 5 - Theo Boiten)
Killed: Pilot Officer Louis Basarab RCAF J/95202 KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Grave: 8. C. 9. Sergeant Herbert Edgar Clark RAF KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Grave 8. C. 5. Flying Officer Lloyd William Frizell RCAF J/39376 KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Grave 8. C. 7. Flying Officer Adelbert Bateman Rowley RCAF J/40054 KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Grave 8. C. 8. Pilot Officer Edmond Kenneth Wilson RCAF J/92645 KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Grave 8. C. 6.
POWs in addition to McPhee: F/Lt Albert Edward Steeves RCAF J/8658 POW Stalag Luft L1 Barth Vogelsang.
Claim by Hptm Fritz Lau 4/NJG1 - Radevormwald South West of Bochum (MP 1): 4,000m at 19:11. (Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 Part 5 - Theo Boiten)
Those who perished were initially buried in Dusseldorf North Cemetery. Reinterred 24 October 1946. (CWGC)
Sergeant McPhee was part of Trupp 55. He arrived at Bankau on 20 December 1944. (The Long Road - Oliver Clutton-Brock)