The enemy's anti-aircraft defences were increasing in volume until sometimes the weather over the Typhoons' targets appeared to be 10-10ths flak. Between the first of October and the middle of December the squadron lost eight pilots. F/Os RA Johns, MP Laycock, J.G. Martin and RA Hiltz, and F/Ls W.L. Saunders and C.A. Lambert were killed or presumed dead. F/O J.A. Brown was taken prisoner when he bailed out of his crippled aircraft, and F/O J.C. Fraser had to force land in Holland where he was sheltered by the Dutch underground until April 1945 when he was able to reach the Canadian forces. Another pilot, F/O RN MacDonald, was killed in a flying accident.

 

(Photo: courtesy of The Canadian Virtual War Memorial Website used with permission)