Crash of a Vickers 440 Wellington X off Sotteville-sur-Mer: 5 killed
Date & Time:
May 13, 1943
Operator:
Registration:
HE656
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Dalton - Dalton
Crew on board:
5
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
5
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Dalton at 2345LT on May 12 on an operation to Duisburg. The following night, while cruising along the French coast, it crashed in unknown circumstances into the sea off Sotteville-sur-Mer. All five crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/Sgt Walter Edward Mann, pilot,
F/O Wallace Wesley O'Brien, navigator,
F/O Linwood Alton Dingley, bomb aimer,
P/O Paul Grant Kelly, wireless operator,
Sgt Ernest Edward Lundy, air gunner.
Crew:
F/Sgt Walter Edward Mann, pilot,
F/O Wallace Wesley O'Brien, navigator,
F/O Linwood Alton Dingley, bomb aimer,
P/O Paul Grant Kelly, wireless operator,
Sgt Ernest Edward Lundy, air gunner.
