Date & Time:
Feb 25, 1943 at 2345 LT
Type of aircraft:
Avro 683 Lancaster
Operator:
Registration:
W4886
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
No
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Syerston - Syerston
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 Syerston at 1900LT on an operation to Nuremberg. Approaching the target area, it was shot down by the German Flak and crashed in Neunhof, about 8 km north northwest of Nuremberg. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/Lt Donald Joseph Curtin, pilot,
F/O Reginald John Frederick Windsor, pilot,
P/O Antony Frederick Lear, navigator,
S/Lt Patrick Myles McGrath, bomb aimer,
Sgt Vincent Edward Jack, wireless operator,
Sgt Henry Rigby, air gunner,
Sgt Kenneth Owen Court, air gunner.
Crew:
F/Lt Donald Joseph Curtin, pilot,
F/O Reginald John Frederick Windsor, pilot,
P/O Antony Frederick Lear, navigator,
S/Lt Patrick Myles McGrath, bomb aimer,
Sgt Vincent Edward Jack, wireless operator,
Sgt Henry Rigby, air gunner,
Sgt Kenneth Owen Court, air gunner.
Probable cause:
Shot down by the German Flak.
