Regina, SaskatchewanTook off from Tempsford Halifax Mk II (Sqn code: NF-N Bomber Command) on Operation PARSNIP 7/LETTUCE 12 setting course for the DZ in Holland.
Successfully dropped 14 containers and one package onto the targets then forced to ditch in the North Sea.
Three casualties resulted from the ditching: Sergeant Bertram Sidney Burch RAF 1315519 Runnymede Memorial Panel 144. Sergeant Richard Thomas Chinn RAF 1586498 Bergen General Cemetery grave Plot 2. Row B. Grave 1. Flight Sergeant Norman Louis Sherwood RAF 1330133 Runnymede Memorial
Four survivors taken POW: Sergeant Oswald John Davies RAF 1103142 POW Stalag Luft L6 Heydekrug Pilot Officer Joseph Loughran RAF 139302 Stalag Luft L3 Sagan and Belaria Sergeant Ronald Willis Scales RAF 1265751 Stalag Luft L4 Sagan and Belaria Sergeant Lyman Abbott Wilson RCAF R/79708 POW Stalag Luft L6 Heydekrug