LLOYD OFFER - Winnipeg resident Lloyd Offer graduated with Course 63. He received the following assessment at initial training School: “Mature, cool alert trainee with splendid service spirit. Very dependable with good sense of responsibility.” Upon completion of pilot training at Centralia, Offer was assessed as: “Fairly good student, although a little slow. This pupil is not recommended for a commission.” Offer was posted overseas. After completing his Heavy Conversion Training, F/Sgt. Offer and his crew were posted to 426 Squadron. At 12.00 p.m. on the night of the 2nd January 1944, Lancaster DS 760 took off to participate in an attack on enemy installations at Berlin, Germany. Flight Sergeant Offer had been detailed to accompany Pilot Officer C.A. Griffith’s crew as 2nd Pilot in order to gain needed experience before taking his own crew on an operational flight. The Lancaster was attacked by a night fighter. While serving as a POW, P/O George Sparks, Air Bomber, stated in a report: “I spoke to P/O Griffiths on the inter-com just before I baled out. He was not injured but was having great difficulty controlling the aircraft. Extremely unlikely he was able to leave the aircraft before it exploded. Believed killed. F/Sgt. Offer was alive when I left aircraft. Just before I bailed out he was saying that he had lost his ‘chute’. Believed killed. Sgt. R.C. Cridland MU/AG parachuted and became a POW. The remaining crew were killed.”