Crash of a Handley Page H.P.57 Halifax II off Drøsselbjerg: 8 killed
Date & Time:
Apr 21, 1943 at 0201 LT
Operator:
Registration:
HR722
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Lissett - Lissett
Crew on board:
8
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
8
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Lissett at 2118LT on April 20 on an operation to Szczecin. While returning to base the following night and passing over Denmark, it was shot down by the German Flak and crashed into the sea west of Drøsselbjerg. All eight crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/Lt David James Donaldson, pilot,
Sgt Leonard Whyatt, flight engineer,
Sgt Henry Frederick Daniel Lay, navigator,
F/Lt Wilfred John Parsons, navigator,
Sgt David Frank Rawlinson Banks, bomb aimer,
Sgt George William Cole, wireless operator,
Sgt Michael Joseph Fitzgerald, air gunner,
P/O George Harold Willis, air gunner.
Crew:
F/Lt David James Donaldson, pilot,
Sgt Leonard Whyatt, flight engineer,
Sgt Henry Frederick Daniel Lay, navigator,
F/Lt Wilfred John Parsons, navigator,
Sgt David Frank Rawlinson Banks, bomb aimer,
Sgt George William Cole, wireless operator,
Sgt Michael Joseph Fitzgerald, air gunner,
P/O George Harold Willis, air gunner.
Probable cause:
Shot down by the German Flak.
