21 Lancasters flew from RAF Station Bourn at around 5 o’clock on the evening of 16 December 1943. This is what happened to the crews.
Lost on the Berlin Operation
Brill crew – lost over Berlin
Crashed on Return to England
Deverill crew – crashed on Graveley airfield
Kirkwood crew – crashed near Gransden Lodge
Mackenzie crew – crashed on the edge of Bourn airfield
Scott crew – crashed near Graveley
Thackway crew – crashed a mile from Bourn
Bravery Award to Sidney Mathews for Rescue of Thackway Crew members
Baled out
Mooney crew
Smith crew
Immediate Decoration
Coates crew
Also Flying
Billing crew
Cawdery crew
De Wesselow crew
Flack crew
Mansbridge crew
Nicholls crew
Owen crew
Pelletier crew
Riches crew
Roberts crew
Snell crew
Wilson crew