Took off from Grimsby at 23:57 in Wellington Mk IV (Sqn code QT-C Bomber Command) on an operation to Bremen Germany.
Home-bound, the aircraft was shot down by a night fighter and crashed in the North Sea 10 km N of Vlieland, Friesland, Holland.
Killed including Culp: Flight Sergeant Ian Craigie Lamont RCAF R/84347 KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 105. Flight Sergeant Alexander Roy RCAF R/84376 KIA Bergen-Op-Zoom War Cemetery, Holland, grave 31. B. 11. Sergeant Frederick Walter Baker RAF KIA Vredenhof Cemetery, Schiermonnikoog, Grave 85. Sergeant Henry John Balkwill RAF KIA Bergen-Op-Zoom War Cemetery, grave 31. C. 6. Sergeant William James North RAF KIA Norwich Cemetery, Norfolk, Sec. 54. Grave 27.
