How many Venturas returned from the "Ramrod" 17 mission?

Ramrod 16 was to be carried out by a dozen Lockheed Ventura Mk II bombers of No. 487 Squadron RNZAF against the power station at Hemweg, in Amsterdam. The raid, which was to continue regardless of losses, began in the late afternoon of 3 May 1943, but Rodeo 212 arrived early and at altitude, which alerted the Germans.

The twelve Venturas took off from RAF Methwold at 16:43. Five minutes later, Q-Queenie, flown by Sergeant A. G. Baker, turned back due to a fault in the escape hatch.

Wing Commander Leonard Trent shot down one of the attackers with his machine guns when the German fighter crossed in front of his nose, and in the end only his aircraft was still in the air. Having reached the target, he pressed on with the attack and released his bomb load, which narrowly missed the target though it caused some damage, before he too was shot down. For his leadership during the raid he was later awarded the Victoria Cross. The only survivors were the crew of the aircraft from the first formation that had returned with a damaged escape hatch — it came loose on landing and jammed the rudder — and Duffill's aircraft, from the second formation, damaged beyond repair and written off. Few of the crews of the nine Venturas shot down on the approach to the target survived.