Took off from Warboys at 18:02 in Wellington Mk III (Sqn code: GT- Bomber Command) on an operation to Diusburg Germany.
The Welli was coned by three searchlights and hit by the guns of a light flak battery and came down near Duisburg-Meiderich, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany.
Killed: Pilot Officer Sisson William Brooke-Norris RAF KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery grave 8. F. 1. Pilot Officer Frank Vernon Watkins MiD pilot RNZAF KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery grave 8. E. 18.
POWs includes Arbic: S/Ldr John Carter RAF POW Stalag Luft L3 Sagan and Belaria. Sergeant Murray Southey RAF POW Stalag 344 Lamsdorf.
