Took off from Fulbeck at 16:47 in Lancaster Mark I (Sqn code: EA-K Bomber Command) on an operation to bomb the Wintershall synthetic oil plant at Lutzkendorf Germany.
Shot down (means not found) and crashed near Bedra south of Braunsbedra (Lutzkendorf) Germany.
Killed: F/Lt Joseph Noel McPhee RCAF J/29733 pilot KIA Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery grave 6. Z. 15. Flight Sergeant Edward Gordon Coke Richards RCAF R/252612 KIA Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery Coll. grave 6. Z. 18-27. Flying Officer Graeme Alastair Robinson RCAF J/39006 KIA Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery Coll. grave 6. Z. 18-27. Flying Officer Raymond Franklin Thompson RCAF J/27160 KIA Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery grave 6. Z. 17. Flight Sergeant Thomas George William Dew RAF KIA Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery Coll. grave 6. Z. 18-27. Sergeant Philip Frederick Ivett RAF KIA Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery grave 6. Z. 16.
Evader: Flight Sergeant G Keith Corrigan RCAF R/218547 Evader.
