6 Bomber Group August 3, 1944
210 Halifaxes from 408, 425, 420, 424, 425, 426, 427, 429, 431, 432,433, and 434 squadrons were joined by 51 Lancasters from 408, 419 and 428squadrons on an attack of two V-1 storage sites at Foret De Nieppe and Bois De Cassan. The crews were over these targets at between 14,000 and16,000 feet, releasing 2,266,000 lbs. of high explosives. According to reports, the weather was clear and severe damage was caused. Richard Koval (6bombergroup.ca)
61 Squadron (Per Puram Tunantes) RAF Skellingthorpe. Lancaster Mk 1 aircraft PA 162 QR-L missing during a daylight operation against the underground V-1 Rocket storage facilities at Troissy-Saint Maximin, North of Paris, France. Cause of loss not determined but believed to have been from Flak, the Lancaster crashed between Trossy (Saint-Maximin) and Creil, France with the loss of six aircrew
Flying Officer Francis Ormond Gilmore (RCAF), Pilot Officer Ross Edwin Sutherland (RCAF), Pilot Officer Harold David Thomson (RCAF), Flying Officer Wilbert Stephens (RCAF), Pilot Officer Bernard Lawrence Rowland (RAF) and Flying Officer Edward Robinson Durant (RAFVR) were all killed in action
Flying Officer W D Forbes (RCAF), baled safely from the bomber and avoided being taken Prisoner of War, remarkably, so close to Allied lines when landed that he was picked up by in very short order by friendly forces
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