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 Lee: 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 Eric Richard Hearn RAF 1867389 KIA Runnymede Memorial, Panel 231. Flying Officer Nigel Leslie St. George Pleasance RAF 135090 KIA Runnymede Memorial, Panel 208.