Took off from Tempsford at 22:00 in Halifax Mk V (Sqn code NF-P Bomber Command) on Operation Shipwright 9, setting course for the DZ in France
Shot down (means not found) near St-Pair-sur-Mer (Manche), France and crashed in the sea.
Killed includes Hearn: Sergeant John Allison RAF 1593445 KIA Bayeux War Cemetery, France, Plot II. Row M. Grave 16. Flight Lieutenant Herbert Denis Binns RAF 49732 KIA Runnymede Memorial, Panel 201 Sergeant William Logan Dalglish RCAF R/223820 KIA Beny-Sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, Reviers, Calvados, France, Plot IX Row F Grave 1 Sergeant Thomas Fergus RAF 1522934 KIA Runnymede Memorial, Panel 229 Sergeant Raymond Leslie Lee RAF 1614168 KIA Bayeux War Cemetery, France, Plot VIII. Row C. Grave 17. Flying Officer Nigel Leslie St. George Pleasance RAF 135090 KIA Runnymede Memorial, Panel 208.