6 Bomber Group August 29/30, 1944
36 Lancasters from 419 and 428 squadron were ordered to attack Stettin. The crews were over the target at 18,000 feet, releasing 106,000 lbs of high explosives and 206,000 lbs of incendiaries. According to reports the target was well hit with some ships in the harbour being sunk. Richard Koval (6bombergroup.ca)
101 Squadron (Men Agitat Molem) RAF Ludford Magna. Lancaster LM 479 SR-F was coded "ABC" for Airborne Cigar. The ABC designation was use to identify aircraft as being specially equipped with three receiving antenna and one transmitter to jam German aircraft radio messages. In order to use the ABC equipment, an eighth crew member, who could speak German, was added to the normal complement of seven. The special equipment operator on Lancaster LM 479 for the operation against targets in Stettin, Germany was 20-year-old Cyril Cousin, the youngest of the crew. The average age of a bomber crew was only 22 years old
Lancaster LM 479 SR-F was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Rudolf Szardenings of 5/NJG3, crashing at Dejbjerg, NW of Skjern, Denmark with the lost of the entire crew
Flying Officer Thomas Foster (RCAF), Flight Sergeant Alfred Reid Chalmers (RCAF), Pilot Officer Hubert Joseph Linn (RCAF), Flying Officer Samuel Albert MacKenzie (RCAF), Pilot Officer Cyril Cousin (RAFVR), Sergeant George Frederick Gibson (RAFVR), Warrant Officer William Owen (RAFVR) and Sergeant Andrew Stewart (RAFVR) were all killed in action
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 Part 4 24 July - 15 October by Theo Boiten, page 64
101 Squadron Lancaster III LM479 SR-F Flying Officer Thomas Foster RAF Ludford...