Kl. 21.03 den 18. august 1942 lettede STI W7618 fra RAF Downham Market på et bombetogt mod Flensborg.Det var flyets første operative flyvning.

De tre overlevende blev samlet op af en dansk fiskerbåd efter at have tilbragt tre dage i deres redningsflåde. (p101MACR) Se også Reddet af fiskere.

Sergeant John Anderson Macpherson, 21 år, var søn af Alfred Sinclair Macpherson og Margaret Louise Macpherson, Kaeo, Auckland, New Zealand.
Hæderstegn: Mentioned in Despatches.

Hans navn er på Panel 117 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)
Han var Wireless Operator på STI W7618. (Kilde: MACR)

2 flyvere fra STI W7618 blev begravet i TYSKLAND. 2 har ingen kendt grav. 3 flyvere blev som krigsfanger ført til Tyske krigsfangelejre.
7 flyvere.

At 21.03 hrs. on 18 August 1942 STI W7618 took off from RAF Downham Market on a bombing raid targeting Flensburg. See also Rescued by fishermen.
W7618's first operational sortie. The three survivors were picked up by a Danish fishing boat after spending three days in their dinghy. (p101MACR)

Sergeant John Anderson Macpherson, 21, was the son of Alfred Sinclair Macpherson and Margaret Louise Macpherson, of Kaeo, Auckland, New Zealand.
Awards: Mentioned in Despatches. He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 203.

He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 117, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC)
He was the Wireless Operator of STI W7618. (Source: MACR)

2 airmen from STI W7618 were buried in GERMANY. 2 have no known grave. 3 airmen were as POWs taken to German POW-Camps.

See No. 218 (Gold Coast) Squadron RAF * No. 218 (Gold Coast) Squadron Association * Short Stirling 
Stirling I W7618 HA-V took off from RAF Downham Market at 2107 hours on 18 AUG 1942. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)  7 airmen.