Squadron: 76 (B) Sqn (RAF)
Start Date: 1941-12-30
Completion Date: 1941-12-30
Mission: Bombing
Operation: unspecified
Target City: Brest France
Target Specific: Gneisenau and Scharnhorst
Base: RAF Middleton St George
Take Off Time: 11:22
Squadron Code: MP-X
Radio Code:
Return Base:
Return Time:
Crash City: into the sea
Crash Specifics: off the coast near Brest, France
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason: flak
Flak Battery: Unspecified Marine Flak
Enemy Claim:
War Diary Unavailable
6 Group Unavailable

76 Squadron (Resolute) RAF Middleton St George. Halifax aircraft L 9615 MP-X failed to return from a daylight attack on the German cruisers Gneisenau and Scharnhorst. Hit by flak, the Halifax crashed into the sea off the coast near Brest, France

Pilot Officer DS King (RCAF), Sergeant WR Gates (RCAF), Sergeant L Blair (RAFVR), Sergeant F Eaton (RAFVR), Sergeant PD Randall (RAF), Sergeant HJ Toski (RAFVR) and Sergeant SM Wilson (RAAF) were all missing, presumed killed in action

The missing have no known grave and are all commemorated on the Runnymede War Memorial

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