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Limburg

Crash of a Handley Page H.P.57 Halifax II near Veulen: 7 killed

Date & Time: Feb 14, 1943 at 2030 LT
Type of aircraft:
Handley Page H.P.57 Halifax II
Operator:
Registration:
W7880
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
No
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Pocklington - Pocklington
Location:
Veulen
Limburg
Country:
Netherlands
Region:
Europe
Crew on board:
7
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
7
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Pocklington at 1825LT on an operation to Cologne. Over the Netherlands, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed 3 km south of Veulen, killing the entire crew.
Crew:
F/Sgt James Leslie Hartshorn, pilot,
Sgt Joseph William Kilyon, flight engineer,
Sgt Harold Alma Cheasman, navigator,
Sgt Frederick William Cox, bomb aimer,
F/Sgt Alfred Norman Conner, wireless operator,
Sgt Albert Owen Gilbert, air gunner,
W/O George Farah, air gunner.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.

Crash of a Heinkel He.111H-3 in Veulen: 4 killed

Date & Time: Dec 26, 1941 at 1700 LT
Type of aircraft:
Heinkel He.111
Operator:
Registration:
V4+NW
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Military
Survivors:
No
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Soesterberg - Münster
MSN:
5435
Location:
Veulen
Limburg
Country:
Netherlands
Region:
Europe
Crew on board:
4
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
4
Circumstances:
While on a transit flight to Münster-Handorf Airport, the crew encountered icing conditions when the airplane went out of control and crashed in Veulen. All four crew members were killed.
Crew:
Lt J. Stürzer, pilot,
Ogfr H. Strodl, bomb aimer,
Gfr E. Günther, radio operator,
Ogfr H. Kadner, air gunner.
Probable cause:
Icing.
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