Takeoff at 20:51 hrs local time for an operation to Frankfurt am Main in Germany.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was attacked by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Walter Barte of the 4./NJG 1, who was flying Bf 110 D-3 G9+FM from St Trond (Sint-Truiden) airfield.
Four graves of the Pathfinder-Lancaster crew can be found in the cemetery of Morkhoven: F/Lt Robert M. Buchan, a 22 year old observer who, just like his pilot, already wore the DFC ribbon, the 20-year old flight engineer Sgt Peter Squires and the two air gunners, Sgt Edward Norman and Sgt Harold D. Quintrell (20 yrs).
The graves of the Airmen (extr. from Aircrew Remembered)