Coastal Command Squadron based at Stornoway, Western Isles, Scotland.
Aircraft was patrolling in The Skagerak between Denmark and Norway when they followed a radar surface contact that turned out to be a German warship that shot them down when they dropped below the 800 foot cloud ceiling
Killed: Sergeant Reginald Godfrey Allen RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 215. Flying Officer Hugh Thomas Conlin RCAF J/86304 KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 245. W/O Charles McLaughlin RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 214. Flying Officer Joseph Armand Roger Lucien La Palme RCAF J/18647 Norway Mandal Churchyard Grave I. 2. 12.
POWs; W/Cdr Charles Aubrey Maton RAF POW Stalag Luft L3 Sagan and Belaria POW# 8711. Flying Officer Ian Edwin Osbourne RAF POW Stalag 3D Berlin-Steglitz POW# 12816. F/Lt Sidney Arthur Winchester RCAF J/10019 POW Stalag Luft L3 Sagan and Belaria POW# 8717. Flying Officer Patrick Joseph McManus DFC RCAF J/14558 POW Stalag Luft L3 Sagan & Belaria POW# 8712. Flying Officer Alexander Lawrence Lyttle DFC RCAF J/25873 POW Stalag Luft L3 Sagan & Belaria POW# 8565.
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