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Karlsruhe 200 aircraft of 5 types with 4 Group Halifaxes now back on major operations. 8 aircraft - 4 Wellingtons, 2 Lancasters, 1 Halifax, 1 Stirling - lost, 4·0 per cent of the force.
The Pathfinders were accurate and this was a successful raid, An estimated 200 fires were seen burning at the same time. Reconnaissance photographs showed much residential and some industrial damage. A very short report from Karlsruhe says only that 73 people were killed and that 3 public buildings in the city centre were hit.
source: The Bomber Command War Diaries, Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt
405 City of Vancouver Squadron (Ducimus). Halifax aircraft DT 487 was shot down at Lesves, seven miles south-west of Namur, Belgium."The aircraft was returning from a mission to Karlsruhe (Baden-Württemberg) and it was shot down by Oblt Martinek (Bf 110) of III./NJG 4, departing from the French base Juvincourt.
The entire crew was killed and resting at Hotton: Flight Lieutenant Lawrence David Hillier (pilot,) Flight Sergeant George William Roberts (second pilot,) Flight Sergeant Bernard Arthur McGrath (navigator,) Sergeant Alexander Douglas Muir (flight engineer,) Pilot Officer Kenneth Ederic Michael Mitchell (wireless operator, gunner,) Flight Sergeant Arthur Colin Ewing (wireless operator,) Sergeant Edward John Cutting (gunner) and Sergeant Edwin Charles Alfred Coules (gunner.)
Account by Barry Elson
Bomber Command Museum Monthly ORB