Crash of an Avro 683 Lancaster III in Frintrop: 7 killed
Date & Time:
Jun 13, 1943 at 0117 LT
Operator:
Registration:
W4989
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Grimsby - Grimsby
Crew on board:
7
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
7
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Grimsby at 2306LT on June 12 on an operation to Bochum. Passing over Oberhausen, it was shot down by the German Flak and crashed in Frintrop, in the northwest suburb of Essen. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
W/O Eric Dainty, pilot,
Sgt James Addie Kinnear, flight engineer,
Sgt Ronald Lewis Howarth, navigator,
Sgt Ralph Blackton Butler, bomb aimer,
F/O George May, wireless operator,
Sgt Albert Lewis Payne, air gunner,
Sgt Douglas Wallace Bartholomew, air gunner.
Crew:
W/O Eric Dainty, pilot,
Sgt James Addie Kinnear, flight engineer,
Sgt Ronald Lewis Howarth, navigator,
Sgt Ralph Blackton Butler, bomb aimer,
F/O George May, wireless operator,
Sgt Albert Lewis Payne, air gunner,
Sgt Douglas Wallace Bartholomew, air gunner.
Probable cause:
Shot down by the German Flak.
