Crash of a Handley Page H.P.63 Halifax V in Greven: 4 killed
Date & Time:
May 24, 1943 at 0103 LT
Operator:
Registration:
DK172
Survivors:
Yes
Schedule:
Linton-on-Ouse - Linton-on-Ouse
Crew on board:
8
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
4
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Linton-on-Ouse at 2227LT on May 23 on an operation to Dortmund. Over Germany, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Greven, 15 km north of Münster. Four crew members were killed and four others became PoW.
Crew:
P/O Edward Semmens Bawden, pilot, †
Lt Per E. R. Waaler, pilot,
Sgt Thomas Knowles, flight engineer,
Sgt Leslie William Sinclair Thick, navigator,
F/Sgt Thomas Musgrove, bomb aimer, †
Sgt J. W. Smith, wireless operator,
Sgt Cyril Greenhalgh, air gunner, †
Sgt Thomas Leonard Victor Hitchcock, air gunner. †
Crew:
P/O Edward Semmens Bawden, pilot, †
Lt Per E. R. Waaler, pilot,
Sgt Thomas Knowles, flight engineer,
Sgt Leslie William Sinclair Thick, navigator,
F/Sgt Thomas Musgrove, bomb aimer, †
Sgt J. W. Smith, wireless operator,
Sgt Cyril Greenhalgh, air gunner, †
Sgt Thomas Leonard Victor Hitchcock, air gunner. †
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.
