Aircraft LL840 took off at 23.17 hours on 21^st June 1944 from RAF Skellingthorpe, Lincolnshire.

Shot down by a night-fighter and crashed at Oene (Gelderland), 5 km East of Epe, where W/O Lane, flying as second W/Op, and Sgt Shorter are buried in the Epe GeneralCemetery.

S/L Tim B Cole, DFC, Pilot, Squadron Leader, (nicked named King Cole), Pow, was interned in Pow camp Stalag Luft 3, Sagan, Poland, Pow No 6497.

Exe F/O Jack Craven, DFC, Navigator, Evaded. (died 1981)

P/O Eric James Blakemore, Radio Operator, Evaded returned to England 12^th March 1945 landing at Biggin Hill Kent, (after the war he wrote book Seven Year Interlude ISBN No 9781858634463) (died 2002). Last living in Bournemouth or Portsmouth area.

W/O John Frederick Lane, Radio Operator/Air Gunner, KIA (the extra crew member) buried in the Epe.  GeneralCemetery. Aged 22, recorded as living in Battersea London. (Perished in plane on crash landing)

Sgt Paul F J Hayes, Rear Tail Air Gunner, Pow was interned in campStalag Luft L7 Bankau. Pow No 221