Date:	Sunday 18 June 1944
Time:
Type:	Short Stirling Mk IV
Owner/operator:	620 Sqn RAF
Registration:	LJ850
MSN:	QS -Y
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 23 / Occupants: 23
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Normandy, Omaha Beach -   France
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Fairford
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Stirling B. Mk. IV LJ850 QS-Y "Yorkshire Rose".
Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer Robert William Crane RAAF Aus/413533 [Killed]
Flight Engineer : Sergeant David Wynne Evans RAFVR 1407968 [Killed]
Navigator : Flight Sergeant Frank Norman Johnson RAFVR 1395038 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Warrant Officer Class II John Percy Clasper RCAF R/159971 [Killed]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Flight Sergeant Granville William Stopford RAFVR 657479 [Killed]
Dispatcher : Sergeant Philip Wilding RAFVR 1345156 [Killed]
Air Gunner : Flight Sergeant Benjamin James Profit RCAF R/189226 [Killed]
Passenger : Private (Army) Donald Maurice Gale (Army/SAS) 5726852 [Killed]
Passenger : Private (Army) James Fleming Spiers Arbuckle (Army/SAS) 2985863 [Killed]
Passenger : Private (Army) John Seymour Bowen (Army/SAS) 899930 [Killed]
Passenger : Lance-Corporal (Army) Harold Brook (Army/SAS) 2615070 [Killed]
Passenger : Corporal William Bryson (Army/SAS) 2880083 [Killed]
Passenger : Private (Army) William John Creaney (Army/SAS) 7019654 [Killed]
Passenger : Private (Army) George Malgwyn Hayes (Army/SAS) 6085839 [Killed]
Passenger : Private (Army) George Dalton Law (Army/SAS) 3603627 [Killed]
Passenger : Corporal William Leadbetter (Army/SAS) 921086 [Killed]
Passenger : Private (Army) Charles MacFarlane (Army/SAS) 215922 [Killed]
Passenger : Private (Army) Dominic McBride (Army/SAS) 14643720 [Killed]
Passenger : Serjeant (Royal Artillery) Ronald Miller (Army/SAS) 1578003 [Killed]
Passenger : Private (Army) James O'Reilly (Army/SAS) 1602722 [Killed]
Passenger : Private (Army) John Kenneth Rogers (Army/SAS) 1835335 [Killed]
Passenger : Serjeant (Royal Artillery) Reginald Josiah Wortley (Army/SAS) 4863732 [Killed]
Passenger : Lieutenant (Army) Leslie George Cairns (Army/SAS) 164967 [Killed]
The SAS soldiers are remembered at the Bayeux Memorial (GPS 49.27423 / -0.71383).

http://home.bt.com/news/world-news/raf-plane-lost-taking-sas-troops-to-liberate-france-is-finally-found-but-french-wont-let-it-be-dug-up-11364040759509
http://sas.raf38group.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=335
https://aviationtrails.wordpress.com/2016/02/18/is-this-the-missing-stirling-lj850/
http://www.raafdb.com/view_casualty.asp?id=708
http://www.newhistorian.com/wwii-british-plane-crash-site-possibly-located-in-france/5371/
Aircraft lost on Allied Force’s Special Duty Operations & Associated Roll of Honour
http://www.aircrewremembrancesociety.co.uk/styled-39/styled-4/index.html
See YouTube https://youtu.be/hLEmcVir4V4 for a documentary on how the aircraft wreckage was discovered.
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Feb-2016 14:44	gerard57	Added
18-Jun-2016 19:17	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Operator, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
24-Feb-2018 13:54	ALAN MACKAY	Updated [Narrative]
11-Nov-2018 13:28	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator]
17-Jun-2022 08:01	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative]
10-Feb-2024 10:21	Rob Davis	Updated [Narrative]