BSTook off from Oulton at 23:52 in Fortress Mark II (Sqn code: BU-B Bomber Command) on a radio counter measures operation (ABC duties) in support of a bombing mission to Wesseling Germany & Scholven-Buer Germany.
Shot down by flak from 5500 metres and crashed at Op de Aaldert near, Gelderland, Holland.
Killed: Pilot Officer John Douglas Cassan RAF pilot KIA Uden War Cemetery Plot 5. Row B. Grave 5. Sergeant Sydney Herbert Byant RAF KIA Uden War Cemetery Plot 5. Row B. Grave 3. Flight Sergeant George Orr Uden War Cemetery Plot 5. Row B. Grave 4. Sergeant Norman William Stanley Abbott RAF KIA Jonkerbos War Cemetery Plot 17. Row G. Grave 5. Flight Sergeant Alex Sharpe RAF KIA Uden War Cemetery Plot 5 Row B Grave 6.
POWs: Flight Sergeant W Milne RAF POW Stalag Luft L3, Sagan & Belaria, POW# 472. Flight Sergeant J Harry Whatton RAF POW Stalag Luft 7 Bankau near Kreulberg Upper Silesia POW# 423. Sergeant Tom S Sparks RAF POW Stalag Luft 7 Bankau near Kreulberg Upper Silesia POW# 414.
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