Took off from Pershore with 14 other transport aircraft on a troop transport flight to Karachi, India. The first stop was to have been Cagliari, Sardinia.
The DC-3 strayed off course due to bad weather into Germany, where it was shot down by a fighter aircraft. All aboard the aircraft were killed.
Killed includes Chevrier: Corp. James Ernest Allen RCAF R/116919 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery grave 2. K. 23. LAC Lawrence Irwin Beach RCAF R/53101 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9. Sergeant George Beckoff RAAF KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9. LAC Oliver Eugene Debs Bergen RCAF R/198657 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery grave 2. K. 22. LAC Robert Thomas Burden RCAF R/163109 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9. Corp. William Howard Campbell RCAF R/72053 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9. LAC Joseph Robert Marcel Armand Couturier RCAF R/174379 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9. Corp. James Cumming RCAF R/10195A KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9. LAC Frederick Robert Leigh Gates RCAF R/150018 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 19. A. 18-19. LAC Maxwell James Foch Good RCAF R/169520 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 19. A. 18-19. Sergeant Walter Francis Hughes RCAF R/58248 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9. Corp. Howard John Hunter RCAF R/159360 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery grave 2. K. 25. F/Lt Ralph Korer RAF pilot KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9. LAC Fred Larson Kristensen RCAF R/191794 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9. LAC William John Scott Lundy RCAF R/194702 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9. LAC Donald John MacDonald RCAF R/176956 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9. Corp. Lorne Hamilton Moreau RCAF P/10407 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9. AC1 John Dunlop McVie RCAF R/258359 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9. Corp. Frederick William Sargeant RCAF R/212995 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9. LAC John Cyril Sutherland RCAF R/72988 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery grave 2. K. 24. Pilot Officer Lionel Alfred Veary RAF Nav KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9. LAC Henry Studwell Watson RCAF R/270640 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9.