Crash of a Handley Page H.P.57 Halifax II in Quendorf: 2 killed
Date & Time:
May 5, 1943 at 0050 LT
Operator:
Registration:
JB904
Survivors:
Yes
Schedule:
Gransden Lodge - Gransden Lodge
Crew on board:
7
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
2
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Gransden Lodge at 2150LT on April 4 on an operation to Dortmund. It was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Quendorf, 15 km southeast of Nordhorn. Two crew members were killed and five others became PoW.
Crew:
P/O John Watt Lennox, pilot, †
Sgt Ambrose Arthur Albert Adlam, flight engineer,
Sgt Austin Townsend Knight, navigator,
F/O Joseph James Barnet Graham, bomb aimer,
Sgt Francis Vivian Roberts, wireless operator,
Sgt Joseph Laurent Prieur, air gunner,
Sgt Bernard Moody, air gunner. †
Crew:
P/O John Watt Lennox, pilot, †
Sgt Ambrose Arthur Albert Adlam, flight engineer,
Sgt Austin Townsend Knight, navigator,
F/O Joseph James Barnet Graham, bomb aimer,
Sgt Francis Vivian Roberts, wireless operator,
Sgt Joseph Laurent Prieur, air gunner,
Sgt Bernard Moody, air gunner. †
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.
