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Last updated on 29 August, 2021
Dates
Pilot(s)
Operation
Reception
To France
From France
References
13-14 September 1943
Sqn/Ldr Verity

BRASENOSE
Mont de Dhuizel

8 kms NNW of Fismes (Aisne)
49° 21' 40" N / 03° 37' 45" E

Edgard Potier (A)
Raymond Gallet (B)
Camille Beuré (C)
Fred Gardiner - signalling
et al.

2 packages
Flt/Sgt Fred Gardiner (RAF)
Pierre Geelen (SOE)
Flt/Sgt Herbert Pond (RNZAF)
R/T message
AIR20/8474
AIR20/8884
- map
- aerial photo
Fred Gardiner's account
Raymond Gallet's account
16-17 October 1943
… failed, wrong back-bearing
Flg/Off Bathgate
MAGDALEN
Le Champ Sainte Marie
2 kms SW of Selens (Aisne)
49° 29' 15" N / 03° 11' 10" E

   

Possibles:
- Lt Carlyle Darling (USAAF)
- W/O Ian Robb (RAF)
- T/Sgt Herbert Browning (USAAF)
- S/Sgt Arthur Whalen (USAAF)
- W/O James Gillman (RAF)

AIR20/8474

Map

18-19 October 1943
… failed, no reception

Flg/Off McCairns
MAGDALEN
Le Champ Sainte Marie
2 kms SW of Selens (Aisne)
49° 29' 15" N / 03° 11' 10" E

   
-- ditto --

AIR20/8474

Map

7-8 November 1943
Flg/Off McCairns

MAGDALEN
Le Champ Sainte Marie
2 kms SW of Selens (Aisne)
49° 29' 15" N / 03° 11' 10" E

Raymond Gallet?
Henri Burny
et al.

Georges d’Oultremont (MI9)

9 packages

T/Sgt Herbert Browning (USAAF)
T/Sgt John Desrochers (USAAF)
S/Sgt Ellis Klein (USAAF)
S/Sgt Arthur Whalen (USAAF)

AIR20/8469

Map

16-17 November 1943
Sqn/Ldr Verity
Flg/Off McCairns

MAGDALEN II
Le Champ Sainte Marie
2 kms SW of Selens (Aisne)
49° 29' 13" N / 03° 11' 10" E

Georges d’Oultremont
Monique de Briey
M. Litez
Henri Burny
et al.

Verity's Lysander:
- Lucien Dumais (MI9)
- Ray Labrosse (MI9)

McCairns' Lysander:
- 4 packages

Verity’s Lysander:
- Sgt 'Val' Johnson (RAF)
- T/Sgt Harold Maddox (USAAF)
- T/Sgt Fred Murray (USAAF)

McCairns’ Lysander:
- 2nd Lt. Charles Breuer (USAAF)
- 2nd Lt. Stanley Chichester (USAAF)
- Edgard Potier (MI9)

1 package

AIR20/8469

Map

Lucien Dumais' account

15-16 December 1943
… cancelled, bad weather
  UNIVERSITY
6 kms NE of Fismes (Aisne)
49° 20' 45" N / 03° 45' 10" E
  Edgard Potier (MI9)
Jean de Blommaert (MI9)
Willy Lemâitre (MI9)

Probably:
- Lt Carlyle Darling (USAAF)
- W/O Robert Harper (RAF)
- W/O Ian Robb (RAF)

AIR20/8884
- report
- aerial photo
- map