Crash of an Avro 683 Lancaster I in Hipstedt: 7 killed

Date & Time: Nov 9, 1942 at 2037 LT
Type of aircraft:
Avro 683 Lancaster
Operator:
Registration:
W4307
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
No
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Scampton – Scampton
Location:
Hipstedt
Lower Saxony
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 Scampton at 1759LT on an operation to Hamburg. While returning to base in the evening, it was shot down by the German Flak and crashed in Hipstedt. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
W/O Bruce Allan Boyd, pilot,
Sgt Thomas Emlyn Edwards, navigator,
F/Sgt Wilfrid Alderic Senez, bomb aimer,
Sgt Fred Dyson, wireless operator,
Sgt Michael Anthony Harran, air gunner,
Sgt Stanley Wilson, air gunner,
Sgt Albert Victor Woolgar, air gunner.
Probable cause:
Shot down by the German Flak.

Crash of an Armstrong Whitworth AW.38 Whitley V in Hipstedt: 5 killed

Date & Time: Jun 28, 1941 at 0158 LT
Type of aircraft:
Armstrong Whitworth AW.38 Whitley
Operator:
Registration:
T4179
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
No
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Leeming - Leeming
MSN:
1872
YOM:
1940
Location:
Hipstedt
Lower Saxony
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 Leeming at 2231LT on June 27 on an operation to Bremen. It was shot down by a Me.110 and crashed in Hipstedt. All five crew members were killed.
Crew:
P/O Donald Vincent Bingham-Hall, pilot,
Sgt John Stanley Shaw, pilot,
Sgt John Marshall McAlonan, observer,
Sgt Douglas Walter Banham, wireless operator,
Sgt Edward Lawley, wireless operator.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.
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