LAN NE167 startede fra RAF Coningsby 16. august 1944 på minelægningstogt og blev skudt ned over Østersøen nær Swinemünde=Swinoujscie.

Se LAN NE167 med mange detaljer om operationen og nedskydningen.

Flight Sergeant (Air Gunner) Jack Douglas Wells, 29 år, var søn af John Douglas og Rose Wells; gift med Linda Wells, Penygarn, Pontypool, Monmouthshire,
United Kingdom. Han er begravet på den gamle garnisonskirkegård i Poznan i Polen. (Kilde: CWGC)

"Operationen medførte lukning af kanalen i flere uger, og Porters dygtige ledelse af mineringen medførte en post mortem tildeling af en Bar til hans allerede i live tildelte Distinguished Flying Cross." (FT 87-94-8) 8 flyvere.

On 16 August 1944 LAN NE167 took off from  RAF Coningsby  on a minelaying mission and was shot down over the Baltic Sea near Swinemünde=Swinoujscie.

See LAN NE167 with many details about the operation and the shooting down.

Flight Sergeant (Air Gunner) Jack Douglas Wells, 29, was the son of John Douglas and Rose Wells, and the husband of Linda Wells, of Penygarn, Pontypool, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom. He rests in Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery Coll.grave 5. C. 1-10 in Poznan in POLAND. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, Panel  113. 

The operation caused closure of the channel for several weeks, and Porter´s clever stewardship of the minelaying resulted in a post mortem award of a Bar to
the Distinguished Flying Cross he had been awarded earlier."(FT 87-94-8)

Lancaster III NE167 OF-Y  took off from RAF Coningsby at 21:21 on 16 AUG 1944. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) See Lancaster Photos.
See No. 97 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia and 97 Squadron Association. No. 97 Squadron (RAF) during the Second World War. See also p341MACR.
See RAF Coningsby at RAF-Lincolnshire-info and RAF Coningsby 2018 with Battle of Britain Memorial Flight. See Google Map RAF-Coningsby. 8 airmen.