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SAARBRUCKEN
118 aircraft- 72 Wellingtons, 4r Halifaxes, 5 Stirlings. 3 Wellingtons and 2 Halifaxes lost, 4?2 per cent of the force.
The Pathfinders had to mark 2 targets on this night and the Pathfinder crews allocated to this raid experienced difficulties with ground haze. Bombing was scattered to the west of the target. Saarbriicken reports on 13 houses destroyed, 27 seriously damaged and 1 man killed.source: The Bomber Command War Diaries, Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt
101 Squadron (Mens Agitat Molem) RAF Stradishall, Suffolk Wellington III aircraft BJ 689, homeward-bound, was shot down by the night fighter crew of Hauptmann Herget & Feldwebel Liebherr of the 9/NJG 4, who were flying a Bf 110 from Juvincourt airfield. The Wellington crashed at Novion-Porcien, Ardennes département, France. Pilot Officer E.A.F De Bartok DFC (RCAF), FS Pilot P.F Brawley (RCAF)(USA) and Sergeant J.L Dyhouse (RAFVR) missing, presumed killed but have no known graves. They are commemorated on the Runnymeade Memorial. Three air crew members bodies were recovered and identified: Sergeant C Drury (RAFVR), Sergeant R.A Haskins (RAFVR) and Sergeant J.E Bailey (RAFVR) and all are buried in the Municipal Cemetery at Novion-Porcien, France.
