Date & Time:
Jun 26, 1942 at 0227 LT
Type of aircraft:
Avro 679 Manchester
Operator:
Registration:
L7289
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
No
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Swinderby - Swinderby
Country:
Germany
Region:
Europe
Crew on board:
7
Crew fatalities:
7
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
0
Other fatalities:
0
Total fatalities:
7
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Swinderby at 2320LT on June 25 on an operation to Bremen. Approaching the target area, it was shot down by the German Flak and crashed in Burg-Grambke, northwest of Bremen. All seven occupants were killed.
Crew (50th Squadron:
Sgt John Charles Roy, pilot,
Sgt Jasper Stormond Peters,
Sgt Robert Leslie Hugall,
Sgt Lawrence Chase Thompson,
Sgt James William Lindsay,
Sgt Neil Malcolm Hardy,
Sgt Edgar Griffits Johnson.
Crew (50th Squadron:
Sgt John Charles Roy, pilot,
Sgt Jasper Stormond Peters,
Sgt Robert Leslie Hugall,
Sgt Lawrence Chase Thompson,
Sgt James William Lindsay,
Sgt Neil Malcolm Hardy,
Sgt Edgar Griffits Johnson.
Probable cause:
Shot down by the German Flak.
