Crash of a Short S.29 Stirling I in Hoogwoud: 7 killed
Date & Time:
May 11, 1941 at 0020 LT
Operator:
Registration:
N3654
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Wyton - Wyton
Crew on board:
7
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
7
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Wyton in the evening of May 10 on an operation to Berlin. Shortly after midnight, while passing over the Netherlands, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Hoogwoud. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
P/O Peter Reginald Stephenson Bird, pilot,
W/Cdr Herbert Reginald Dale, pilot,
Sgt Stanley Philip Plumb, flight engineer,
P/O Daniel Mclean Campbell, observer,
Sgt Norman Howarth Nuttall, wireless operator,
Sgt Frank Augustus Sidney Smith, wireless operator,
Sgt Eric Russell Lucas, air gunner.
Crew:
P/O Peter Reginald Stephenson Bird, pilot,
W/Cdr Herbert Reginald Dale, pilot,
Sgt Stanley Philip Plumb, flight engineer,
P/O Daniel Mclean Campbell, observer,
Sgt Norman Howarth Nuttall, wireless operator,
Sgt Frank Augustus Sidney Smith, wireless operator,
Sgt Eric Russell Lucas, air gunner.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.
