Stirling Mk IV LJ-819 5G-H was hit by flak and shot down off the D-Day invasion beaches as part of Operation MALLARD, after releasing a glider and dropping supplies, eight miles north-west of Caen, France.
Killed includes Clark: Flying Officer Francis Allan Boyce RCAF J/20871 KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 245. Pilot Officer Theodore Henry Schrump RCAF J/92034 KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 252. Warrant Officer Class 1 James Henry Munroe RCAF R/125842 KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 254. Pilot Officer Albert Lance Coates RAAF KIA La Délivrande War Cemetery, Douvres grave II. A. 3. Sergeant Ernest Henry Mills RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 234.
