Crash of an Avro 683 Lancaster III in Grossenaspe: 7 killed

Date & Time: Apr 4, 1943 at 2350 LT
Type of aircraft:
Avro 683 Lancaster
Operator:
Registration:
ED696
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
No
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Waddington - Waddington
Location:
Grossenaspe
Schleswig-Holstein
Country:
Germany
Region:
Europe
Crew on board:
7
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
7
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Waddington in the evening on an operation to Kiel. Approaching the target area, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Grossenaspe, 40 km south southwest of Kiel. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/Sgt John Harvey Courtney, pilot,
Sgt Herbert Llewelyn Jones, flight engineer,
P/O Ronald Edward Raven, navigator,
F/O Kennedy Emslie Fraser, bomb aimer,
W/O Thomas Wilfred Telfer, wireless operator,
F/O Stuart Melbourne Hobson, air gunner,
Sgt Eric Sharpe Wood, air gunner.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.

Crash of a Vickers 417 Wellington III in Grossenaspe: 5 killed

Date & Time: Jul 27, 1942 at 0130 LT
Type of aircraft:
Vickers 417 Wellington III
Operator:
Registration:
Z1654
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
No
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Feltwell - Feltwell
Location:
Grossenaspe
Schleswig-Holstein
Country:
Germany
Region:
Europe
Crew on board:
5
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
5
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Feltwell at 2300LT on July 26 on an operation to Hamburg. Approaching the target area from the north, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Grossenaspe, some 45 km north of Hamburg. All five crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt Kenneth Hudson, pilot,
Sgt Arthur Walter Pierard, observer,
F/Sgt Victor Raymond Lenichek, wireless operator,
Sgt Richard Leslie Lloyd, wireless operator,
F/Sgt John Rross, air gunner.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.
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