Crash of a Vickers 417 Wellington III in Beegden: 6 killed
Date & Time:
Feb 14, 1943 at 2106 LT
Operator:
Registration:
X3420
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Dishforth – Dishforth
Crew on board:
6
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
6
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Dishforth at 1806LT on an operation to Cologne. Over the Netherlands, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Beegden, killing the entire crew.
Crew:
W/Cdr Sedley Stewart Blanchard, pilot,
W/O Kenneth William Tutton, copilot,
F/O Paul Winstanley Jeanneret, navigator,
Sgt Percival Maurice Corley, bomb aimer,
F/Sgt Arthur Grant Longwell, wireless operator,
F/Sgt Joseph Henry Eveline, air gunner.
Crew:
W/Cdr Sedley Stewart Blanchard, pilot,
W/O Kenneth William Tutton, copilot,
F/O Paul Winstanley Jeanneret, navigator,
Sgt Percival Maurice Corley, bomb aimer,
F/Sgt Arthur Grant Longwell, wireless operator,
F/Sgt Joseph Henry Eveline, air gunner.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.
