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Overijssel

Crash of a Avro 683 Lancaster II in Epse: 7 killed

Date & Time: Mar 25, 1944 at 0037 LT
Type of aircraft:
Avro 683 Lancaster
Operator:
Registration:
LL694
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
No
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Witchford - Witchford
Location:
Deventer
Overijssel
Country:
Netherlands
Region:
Europe
Crew on board:
7
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
7
Circumstances:
Following a bombing mission over Germany, the aircraft was returning to its base in Witchford, Cambridgeshire. While overflying The Netherlands by night at an altitude of 6,000 meters, the aircraft was shot down by the pilot of a German fighter and crashed in a field located in Epse, some 4 km southeast of Deventer. All seven crew members were killed. Claim by Oblt Martin Drewes Stab III/NJG1.
Crew:
P/O T. E. Vipond,
Sgt A. Diggle,
F/S J. L. Duffy,
F/O E. J. Deemer,
Sgt J. E. Hammond,
Sgt A. J. Hull,
Sgt R. L. Coulter.
Probable cause:
Shot down by fighter.

Crash of an Armstrong Whitworth AW.38 Whitley V in Deventer: 4 killed

Date & Time: Nov 13, 1940
Type of aircraft:
Armstrong Whitworth AW.38 Whitley
Operator:
Registration:
T4208
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
Yes
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Topcliffe - Topcliffe
MSN:
1881
YOM:
1940
Location:
Deventer
Overijssel
Country:
Netherlands
Region:
Europe
Crew on board:
5
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
4
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Topcliffe to bomb a synthetic oil plant in Wesseling. While returning to its basae without making an attack, the aircraft was shot by enemy fire and crashed in Deventer. A crew became PoW and four others were killed.
Crew:
P/O Geoffrey Henocq, †
P/O G. M. Wiltshear,
Sgt Albert Ernest George Everest, †
Sgt Herbert Hutchinson, †
Sgt Alexander Duff Wilson. †
Probable cause:
Shot down by enemy fire.
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