Zone
Hesse

Crash of a Vickers 416 Wellington IC near Frankfurt

Date & Time: Sep 29, 1941
Type of aircraft:
Vickers 416 Wellington IC
Operator:
Registration:
X9761
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
Yes
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Waterbeach - Waterbeach
Location:
Frankfurt
Hesse
Country:
Germany
Region:
Europe
Crew on board:
6
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
0
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Waterbeach at 1914LT on September 28 on an operation to Frankfort. Believed to have crashed while approaching the target area. All six crew members became Pow.
Crew:
Sgt Eric Coleman,
Sgt Harold George Lewis,
Sgt Peter Leslie Trask,
Sgt Hilary Eldred Birk,
Sgt Wallace Harry Dyer,
Sgt John Bartlett Dicks.

Crash of a Handley Page H.P.52 Hampden I near Frankfurt

Date & Time: Sep 29, 1941
Type of aircraft:
Handley Page H.P.52 Hampden
Operator:
Registration:
AD733
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
Yes
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Scampton – Scampton
Location:
Frankfurt
Hesse
Country:
Germany
Region:
Europe
Crew on board:
4
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
0
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Scampton on an operation to Frankfurt. It is believed that it crashed while approaching the target area. All four crew members became PoW.
Crew:
Sgt Peter Charles Philip Darwin,
F/Sgt Frank Robert Hibbert,
F/Lt John Douglas Mundy,
Sgt Andrew Winton.

Crash of an Armstrong Whitworth AW.38 Whitley V near Frankfurt: 3 killed

Date & Time: Aug 30, 1941
Type of aircraft:
Armstrong Whitworth AW.38 Whitley
Operator:
Registration:
Z6863
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
Yes
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Topcliffe - Topcliffe
MSN:
2204
YOM:
1941
Location:
Frankfurt
Hesse
Country:
Germany
Region:
Europe
Crew on board:
5
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
3
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Topcliffe at 2101LT on August 29 on an operation to Frankfurt. Approaching the target area, it was shot down by enemy fire and crashed. Three crew members were killed and two others became PoW.
Crew:
S/L John Oswald Lalor, pilot, †
Sgt Horace James William Newnes, pilot, †
Sgt Michael Reginald Bowes, observer, †
Sgt Frederick Potts,
Sgt Robert Cecil Watchorn.
Probable cause:
Shot down by enemy fire.
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