Crash of an Avro 683 Lancaster I near Stade: 7 killed

Date & Time: Mar 3, 1943 at 2129 LT
Type of aircraft:
Avro 683 Lancaster
Operator:
Registration:
W4855
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
No
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Wickenby - Wickenby
Location:
Stade
Lower Saxony
Country:
Germany
Region:
Europe
Crew on board:
7
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
7
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Wickenby at 1858LT on an operation to Hamburg. Approaching the target area, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed west of Stade, some 34 km west of Hamburg. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt Kenneth Rupert William Simmonds, pilot,
Sgt Laurence Burnett, flight engineer,
F/Sgt Ian Victor Heatley, navigator,
F/Sgt Donald Kerr, bomb aimer,
F/Sgt Henry Herbert Brien, wireless operator,
Sgt Roy Victor Malcolm Davenport, air gunner,
F/Sgt Archibald John Marfell, air gunner.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.

Crash of a Vickers 417 Wellington III in Stade: 6 killed

Date & Time: Jul 29, 1942 at 0134 LT
Type of aircraft:
Vickers 417 Wellington III
Operator:
Registration:
X3664
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
No
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Feltwell - Feltwell
Location:
Stade
Lower Saxony
Country:
Germany
Region:
Europe
Crew on board:
6
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
6
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Feltwell on an operation to Hamburg. Approaching the target area, it was shot down by the German Flak and crashed in Stade, some 35 km west of Hamburg. All six crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/Sgt Victor Kenneth Westerman, pilot,
F/Lt Peter John Wilson, pilot,
Sgt Robert Hylton Brisco, observer,
F/Sgt Ronald Fraser Davis, wireless operator,
Sgt Gordon Edwin Caitcheon, air gunner,
F/Sgt Alan Campbell, air gunner.
Probable cause:
Shot down by the German Flak.
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