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DATE	TARGET FOR TONIGHT	AIRCRAFT	COMMENTS
9/10.12.44	Urft Dam	ND473
11.12.44	Urft Dam	LM677 PO.V
17/18.12.44	Munich	LM677 PO.V
18/19.12.44	Gdynia	LM677 PO.V
1.1.45	Ladbergen	PB726 PO.P
4/5.1 .45	Royan	ND473 PO.N
1/2.2 .45	Siegen	NG234
7/8.2.45	Ladbergen	LM677 PO.V
8/9.2.45	Politz	LM677 PO.V
20/21.2.45	Gravenhorst	LM677 PO.V
24.2.45	Ladbergen	LM677 PO.V
3/4.3.45	Ladbergen	LM677 PO.V	Missing
F/O Eggins.R.B and crew posted to 467 Sq 27.11.44. On their 12th op to the Dortmund Ems Canal at Ladbergen, they were shot down and one survivor is listed. The A/C crashed near Royan in France, and on 10.8.1981 Nobby Blundell received a letter from the curator Royan cemetery, listing the graves of some allied servicemen, this crew are listed.
4/5.1.45, on the op to Royan, the A/C and crew were involved in a collision with ME300 of 189 Sq near Cognac. The A/C was out of control and Eggins gave the order to abandon and the crew returned to Waddington in a few days but Sgt Baker.B.F. was injured and had not returned to ops when the crew were lost 4.3.45.