Date & Time: Mar 27, 1943
Type of aircraft:
Avro 683 Lancaster
Operator:
Registration:
W4839
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
No
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Waddington - Waddington
Location:
Grossbeeren
Brandenburg
Country:
Germany
Region:
Europe
Crew on board:
7
Crew fatalities:
7
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
0
Other fatalities:
0
Total fatalities:
7
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Waddington on an operation to Berlin. It crashed in unknown circumstances in Grossbeeren, killing the entire crew.
Crew:
F/Sgt Albert Joseph Horwood, pilot,
Sgt Louis William John Schultz, flight engineer,
Sgt Robert Longster Cole, navigator,
W/O Fred Winslow Guild, wireless operator,
W/O Jack McArthur Newton, bomb aimer,
F/Sgt Horace Herbert Clements, air gunner,
Sgt George McCurrach Sheridan, air gunner.