Crash of a Vickers 417 Wellington III in Le Chanet: 3 killed
Date & Time:
Nov 22, 1942 at 2255 LT
Operator:
Registration:
X3672
Survivors:
Yes
Schedule:
Warboys - Warboys
Crew on board:
5
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
3
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Warboys on an operation to Stuttgart. While returning to base in the late evening, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Le Chanet, some 10 km west northwest of Bar-sur-Aube. Three crew members were killed and two others became PoW.
Crew:
F/Lt Edward Albert Fletcher, pilot, †
F/Sgt Frederick Victor Brook, wireless operator, †
P/O George John Grayland, air gunner, †
P/O Roy Lister Myers,
F/Lt Norman Robert Watts.
Crew:
F/Lt Edward Albert Fletcher, pilot, †
F/Sgt Frederick Victor Brook, wireless operator, †
P/O George John Grayland, air gunner, †
P/O Roy Lister Myers,
F/Lt Norman Robert Watts.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.
