Den Hoorn (Texel) | Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives

The airplane departed RAF Scampton at 2304LT on June 25 on an operation to Gelsenkirchen. Passing over the Netherlands, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed south of Den Hoorn, Texel Island. All eight crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/Lt Dougal Hamish Reid, pilot,
F/O Walter John Wheeler, pilot,
Sgt George Samwell Hodges, flight engineer,
P/O John Colin Evans, navigator,
Sgt Alan McGeoch Sandars, bomb aimer,
P/O James Walter Palmer, wireless operator,
Sgt Douglas Telfer, air gunner,
F/O Ernest Henry Patrick, air gunner.

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Shot down by a German fighter.

Crash of a Handley Page H.P.63 Halifax V in Den Hoorn: 4 killed

Date & Time: Jun 13, 1943 at 0213 LT

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Handley Page H.P.63 Halifax V

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DK183

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Leeming - Leeming

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The airplane departed RAF Leeming at 2312LT on June 12 on an operation to Bochum. Passing over the Netherlands, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Den Hoorn, south Texel Island. Four crew members were killed and three others became PoW.
Crew:
P/O Alexander Mathias Fellner, pilot,
Sgt James Imms, fight engineer, †
P/O George William Rupert Dalton, navigator, †
P/O William Angus Thurston, bomb aimer,
P/O Bernard Laird Tedford, wireless operator, †
Sgt Albert Dixon, air gunner, †
P/O Gerrard Smith Huston, air gunner.
Photos: http://www.626-squadron.co.uk/willem23.htm

Probable cause:

Shot down by a German fighter.