Took off from Mildenhall at 16:50 in Lancaster Mk I (Sqn code GI-D Bomber Command) on an operation to Berlin Germany.
Aircraft shot down (means not found) and crashed in the target area.
Killed: F/Lt David Arthur Claydon RCAF J/16564 pilot KIA Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery grave 7. J. 10. Flight Sergeant Peter James Maher RCAF R/185430 KIA Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery grave 4. D. 15. Pilot Officer Stanley Ernest James RAAF KIA Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery grave 7. G. 10. Sergeant Dennis Frederick Bache RAF KIA Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery Joint grave 7. G. 5-6. Flying Officer William Haydn Davies RAF KIA Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery grave 7. G. 9. Flight Sergeant Harold Graham RAF KIA Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery Joint grave 7. G. 5-6. Sergeant Frank Mosley RAF KIA Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery grave 7. B. 14. Pilot Officer William Gibb Johnston Shields RAF KIA Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery grave 7. G. 3.
Cenotaph at Saint James Cemetery, Saint-James, Greater Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada