Took off from Lindholme at 21:17 in Hampden Mark I (Sqn code: VN-P Bomber Command) on an operation to bomb the Blohm & Voss Shipyards at Hamburg Germany.
Aircraft hit by flak and crew abandoned it; crashed NW of Elmshorn, Germany.
POWs:WO Fred Garland Brook RAF POW Stalag 357 Kopernikus.WO Andrew Bertram Cox RAF POW Stalag 357 Kopernikus.WO Kenneth Wynn Wright RAF POW Stalag 357 Kopernikus.Squadron Leader Frank Andrew Willan RAF pilot POW Stalag Luft L3 Sagan and Belaria.