Crash of a Handley Page H.P.57 Halifax II in Mühlhausen: 1 killed
Date & Time:
Apr 17, 1943 at 0317 LT
Operator:
Registration:
DT773
Survivors:
Yes
Schedule:
Linton-on-Ouse - Linton-on-Ouse
Crew on board:
7
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
1
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Linton-on-Ouse at 2100LT on April 16 on an operation to Plzeň. It was shot down by a German fighter and crashed into the Max-Eyth Lake in Mühlhausen, 7 km north northeast of Stuttgart. The pilot was killed and six other crew members became PoW.
Crew:
F/Lt Arthur Patrick Dowse, pilot, †
Sgt Thomas Thompson Slater, flight engineer,
F/Sgt Richard Desjardins, navigator,
Sgt Henry Edward Thompson, bomb aimer,
Sgt Philip Langsford, wireless operator,
Sgt Albert William Hoare, air gunner,
F/O Andrew Nielson Orr, air gunner.
Crew:
F/Lt Arthur Patrick Dowse, pilot, †
Sgt Thomas Thompson Slater, flight engineer,
F/Sgt Richard Desjardins, navigator,
Sgt Henry Edward Thompson, bomb aimer,
Sgt Philip Langsford, wireless operator,
Sgt Albert William Hoare, air gunner,
F/O Andrew Nielson Orr, air gunner.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.
