Crash of a Vickers 440 Wellington X in Dallon
Date & Time:
Apr 15, 1943 at 0255 LT
Operator:
Registration:
HE733
Survivors:
Yes
Schedule:
Dishforth – Dishforth
Crew on board:
5
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
0
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Dishforth in the evening of April 14 on an operation to Stuttgart. Homeboud, it was shot down by a German fighter and crash landed in Dallon, southwest of Saint-Quentin. All five crew members survived and became PoW.
Crew:
Sgt Robert Branscombe Dingman, pilot,
P/O Harold Ernest Garland,
Sgt Charles Albert Frederick William Griffin,
P/O Thomas Robert Cliffird Irwin,
Sgt Eric Charles Mitchell Guyatt, air gunner.
Crew:
Sgt Robert Branscombe Dingman, pilot,
P/O Harold Ernest Garland,
Sgt Charles Albert Frederick William Griffin,
P/O Thomas Robert Cliffird Irwin,
Sgt Eric Charles Mitchell Guyatt, air gunner.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.
