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138 (Special Duties) Squadron (For freedom) RAF Tempsford. Halifax B Mk II aircraft BB 317 NF-N embarked on Operation PARSNIP 7/LETTUCE 12, a Special Operations Executive (SOE) mission where 14 containers and one package of weapons for resistance fighters were successfully dropped into Holland. Homeward-bound, the Halifax was intercepted and attacked by night fighter pilot Major Werner Straub of Stab/NJG1. The bomber was heavily damaged and ditched into the North Sea off the coast of Petten, Noord-Holland, Netherlands with the loss of three crew members
Sergeant Bertram Sidney Burch (RAFVR, Flight Sergeant Norman Louis Sherwood (RAFVR) and Sergeant Richard Thomas Chinn (RAFVR) were killed in action. Sergeant Burch and Flight Sergeant Sherwood were missing and never recovered. Both men are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial. The body of Sergeant Chinn washed ashore near Petten, Netherlands 1943-09-23 and was buried in a cemetery there
Sergeant Lyman Abbott Wilson (RCAF), Sergeant Oswald John Davies (RAF), Pilot Officer Joseph Loughran (RAF) and Sergeant Ronald Willis Scales (RAF) all survived and were taken as Prisoners of War
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 Part 2, 23 June - 22 September by Theo Boiten, page 122
Royal air Force Serial and Image Database
Aircraft-lost-on-Allied-Forces-Special-Duties-Operations.pdf
