[Andy Mitchell]

Regarding posts #26 and #28

Bomber Command Losses 1941 (Chorley) has the following:

5/6 July

AD739 EA-A of 49 Sqdn operating from Scampton on a sortie to Osnabrück, lost without trace.

With regard to the comment that this aircraft was from 149 Sqdn - 149 was operating Wellingtons at that time not Hampdens. 149 instead of 49 - probably a simple typo.

AD806 QR-? of 61 Sqdn operating from Hemswell on a sortie to Osnabrück, lost without trace.

6/7 July

AD871 PL-? 144 Sqdn operating from Hemswell on a sortie to Brest, lost without trace.

(by 17 July this unit had moved to North Luffenham)

All of the above crews commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.