Took off from Scampton at 20:05 in Lancaster Mk I (Sqn code P4-O Bomber Command) on an operation to Chemnitz Germany.
Aircraft shot down (means not found) and crashed between the villages of Arnsfeld and Grumbach Germany.
Killed includes Caryi: Flight Sergeant John Joseph O'brien Heady RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 271. F/Lt Clement Robert Mills RCAF J/6675 KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 278. Cpl Frederick William Arthur Moore RAF KIA Singapore Memorial Column 452. Flying Officer Lorne Albert MacDonald RCAF J/42188 KIA Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery grave 1. F. 16. Flying Officer Ross Samuel Stanzel RCAF J/42702 KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 280. Sergeant William Henry Wicks RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 277. Warrant Officer Class 1 John Howard Wilson RCAF R/130331 KIA Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery grave 1. F. 13.
