Took off from Fiskerton at 23:11 in Lancaster Mk III (Sqn code EA-K Bomber Command) on a bombing operation against the synthetic oil plant at Wesseling in Germany.
Home-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter and crashed in the North Sea off Walcheren, Zeeland, Holland.
Killed includes Cully: Pilot Officer Shinn RAF DFC KIA Bergen-op-Zoom War Cemetery Sergeant N G V Pettit RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Flying Officer J B Stanley RAF KIA Bergen-op-Zoom War Cemetery Sergeant S Hawes RAF KIA Westduin Cemetery The Hague (Den Haag) Sergeant A E Dicken RAF KIA Hoek Van Holland General Cemetery Sergeant A Armstrong RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial
