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The airplane departed RAF Wickenby at 2309LT on June 28 on an operation to Cologne. It was shot down by a German fighter and crashed into the North Sea some 40 km west of Haarlem. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
S/L Frederick John Knight, pilot,
Sgt Ernest Frederick Lawrence, flight engineer,
F/O Howard Cedric Treherne, navigator,
F/Sgt Mervyn Barnaby Noble, bomb aimer,
Sgt Francis Donovan Ayerst, wireless operator,
F/Sgt Frank Birkin, air gunner,
Sgt James Roy Boxall, air gunner.

Probable cause:

Shot down by a German fighter.

Crash of a Lockheed PV-1 Ventura I in Haarlem: 1 killed

Date & Time: May 3, 1943 at 1745 LT

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Lockheed PV-1 Ventura

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AE731

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Methwold - Methwold

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4074

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1942

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The airplane departed RAF Methwold at 1643LT on operation Ramrod 16 consisting to attack an electricity power station located on the northern outskirts of Amsterdam. Approaching the target area, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Haarlem, west of Amsterdam. The air gunner was killed and three other crew members became PoW.
Crew:
P/O Terris Leonard Barton Taylor, pilot,
P/O M. B. Shapiro, navigator,
Sgt Leonard John Littlewood, wireless operator,
Sgt George Thomas Tattam, air gunner. †

Probable cause:

Shot down by a German fighter.