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Crash of a Handley Page H.P.63 Halifax V in Dreumel

Date & Time: Jul 14, 1943 at 0123 LT
Type of aircraft:
Handley Page H.P.63 Halifax V
Operator:
Registration:
DK142
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
Yes
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Leeming - Leeming
Location:
Dreumel
Gelderland
Country:
Netherlands
Region:
Europe
Crew on board:
7
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
0
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Leeming at 2341LT on July 13 on an operation to Aachen. Passing over the Netherlands, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed on the east bank of the Waal River in Dreumel. All seven crew members became PoW.
Crew (427 Sq):
Sgt Michael Edward Sobkowicz, pilot,
W/O Stanley William Bryant, flight engineer,
Sgt Robert Thomas Hayes, navigator,
Sgt Walter Herbert Green, bomb aimer,
Sgt John Frederick Hutchings, wireless operator,
Sgt John Harold Brown, air gunner,
Sgt Joseph Richard Roland Poudrier, air gunner.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.

Crash of a Vickers 406 Wellington II in Dreumel: 5 killed

Date & Time: Mar 9, 1942 at 0600 LT
Type of aircraft:
Vickers 406 Wellington II
Operator:
Registration:
Z8409
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
Yes
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Binbrook - Binbrook
Location:
Dreumel
Gelderland
Country:
Netherlands
Region:
Europe
Crew on board:
6
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
5
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Binbrook at 0204LT on an operation to Essen. Over the Netherlands, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Dreumel. Five crew members were killed and a sixth became PoW.
Crew:
F/Sgt Michael Sedgwick Duder, pilot, †
F/Sgt Francis Joseph Menshek, pilot, †
Sgt Eric Ian Campbell Wood, observer, †
Sgt George Edward Warren, wireless operator, †
F/Sgt Kenneth Crouch, wireless operator, †
Sgt A. G. Macey, air gunner.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.
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