26-27/9/41 Emden. WW’s second mission. No 101 Sq losses.

29/9/41 Le Havre. WW’s third mission. No 101 Sq losses.

10-11/10/41 Cologne. WW’s fourth mission. One 101 Sq aircraft lost: Wellington 1C R1219. Last heard of over Belgium. Sgt G A Highfield killed. P/O G A D Imeson (pilot), Sgt J R Ritchie RNZAF, Sgt J Parkington, F/O R C Carroll, Sgt V I Bowden, all POWs.

W Wigham's aircraft 'Force-landed away from base. Short of petrol.'

13-14/10/41 Dusseldorf. WW’s fifth mission. One 101 Sq aircraft lost, Wellington 1C T2846. Five crew POWs: Sgt R L Betts (pilot), Sgt L D A Bolton, P/O W Barrett, Sgt J M Atkinson, Sgt L Pearman, Sgt R H Cage. One evader: Sgt L Pearman.

15-16/10/41 Cologne. WW’s sixth mission. No 101 Sq losses. W Wigham's aircraft 'Hit by flak. Force-landed away from base.'

31-1/10-11/41 Bremen. WW’s seventh mission. No 101 Sq losses.

7-8/11/41 Berlin. WW’s eighth mission. One 101 Squadron aircraft lost, Wellington 1C R1701. SR-K. Last heard of on radio attempting to ditch off Dutch coast. No trace of crew found: P/O W D C Hardie, Sgt B J Rampling, P/O A L Miller RCAF, Sgt W Buchan, Sgt W Watson, Sgt R A Berry.

W Wigham's aircraft sortie duration 8.30 hours, the longest of his combat career. 'Weather bad. Damaged by heavy flak opposition'.

30-1/11-12/41 Hamburg. WW’s ninth mission. Two 101 Squadron aircraft lost:

Wellingon 1C R1778, SR-G. Crashed in North Sea off Danish coast. Four crew died: Sgt D A Willisson (pilot), R St C Finch, Sgt D E Williams, Sgt K Naylor. Two crew rescued by Danish fishing boat and made POW: Sgt J W Lamont, Sgt L G C Dimond.

Wellington 1C R3295 SR-P. Ditched off the Dutch coast. All six crew survived and made POW: Sgt P Winfield (pilot), Sgt W L Johnson, RCAF, Sgt I G Davies, Sgt T A Cooke, Sgt A W J Cleeve, Sgt A L R Heath. Sgt Heath later became a prominent abstract artist postwar.

W Wigham's aircraft: 'Navigator lost his bearing. Bombed alternative target.' Wigham's pilot was Sgt Callender, who is noted in the Squadron Operational Record Book as having bombed an alternative target.

17/12/41 Brest. WW’s 10th mission. No 101 Sq losses. W Wigham's aircraft: 'Weather bad. Diverted away from base.'

27-28/12/41 Dusseldorf. WW’s 11th mission. One 101 Sq aircraft lost: Wellington 1C Z1115. Brought down over Germany. All six crew killed: P/O G K K K Pelmore (pilot), Sgt J D Anderson, Sgt O E Rance, Sgt P C Williams, Sgt S Johnson, Sgt D S Edmond

8/1/42 Brest. WW’s 12th mission. No 101 Sq aircraft lost.

10-11/1/42 Wilhemshaven. WW’s 13th mission. No 101 Sq aircraft lost. W Wigham's aircraft: 'Very heavy and light flak.'

20-21/1/42 Emden. WW’s 14th mission. One 101 Sq aircraft lost. Wellingon 1C Z1110. Lost without trace. The six crew were: P/O J G Scott, RCAF, Sgt E S Swingler, P/O K A Parslow, F/S G J Sharp, F/S A W Kerrisk RNAF, F/S M T O'Brien.

W Wigham's aircraft: 'Forced to return with engine trouble.'

22-23/1/42 Munster. WW’s 15th mission. No 101 Sq aircraft lost. W Wigham's aircraft: 'Weather fine. Light flak.'

12/2/42 Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Prince Eugen, Channel Dash. WW 16th mission. No 101 Sq aircraft lost. W Wigham's aircraft: 'Weather very bad. Ships not seen after square search.'

13-14/3/42 Cologne. WW’s 17th mission. No 101 Sq aircraft lost. W Wigham's aircraft: 'Heavy flak. Aircraft damaged.'

25-36/3/42 Essen. WW’s 18th mission. No 101 Sq aircraft lost. W Wigham's aircraft: Very heavy and light flak'

28-29/3/42 Lubeck. WW’s 19th mission. No 101 Sq aircraft lost. W Wigham's aircraft: 'Weather fine. No opposition.' The Baltic city of Lubeck was devastated in the most successful RAF raid of the war thus far.

6-7/4/42 Cologne. WW’s 20th mission. No 101 Sq aircraft lost.

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