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Crash of a Vickers 440 Wellington X in Couvron-et-Aumencourt: 5 killed

Date & Time: Apr 17, 1943 at 0209 LT
Type of aircraft:
Vickers 440 Wellington X
Operator:
Registration:
HE387
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
No
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Leconfield - Leconfield
Location:
Couvron-et-Aumencourt
Aisne
Country:
France
Region:
Europe
Crew on board:
5
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
5
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Leconfield at 2109LT on April 16 on an operation to Mannheim. While returning to base the following night, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Couvron-et-Aumencourt. All five crew members were killed.
Crew:
P/O Ivor Malcolm Payne Morgan, pilot,
F/Sgt Roy Hill, navigator,
F/O Albert William Arnold Trevarthen, bomb aimer,
Sgt Norman Bruce, wireless operator,
Sgt Leslie Pickford, air gunner.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.

Crash of a Handley Page H.P.57 Halifax II in Couvron-et-Aumencourt: 3 killed

Date & Time: Dec 3, 1942 at 0617 LT
Type of aircraft:
Handley Page H.P.57 Halifax II
Operator:
Registration:
W7916
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
Yes
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Pocklington - Pocklington
Location:
Couvron-et-Aumencourt
Aisne
Country:
France
Region:
Europe
Crew on board:
8
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
3
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Pocklington at 0128LT on an operation to Frankfurt. While returning to base, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Couvron-et-Aumencourt. Three crew members were, three became PoW and two evaded.
Crew:
W/Cdr John Robert Andre Embling,
S/L John Greet Gordon Walkington, pilot, †
Sgt John Law, flight engineer, †
Sgt Ronald Cooper Arthur Douglas,
F/Sgt Lionel Cecil Fantini,
Sgt Harold Johnson,
P/O A. R. Haines,
Sgt Laurence Clifford Molloy, air gunner. †
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.
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