Date & Time:
Jun 23, 1943 at 0055 LT
Type of aircraft:
Avro 683 Lancaster
Operator:
Registration:
ED599
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
No
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Warboys - Warboys
Country:
Netherlands
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 Warboys at 2307LT on June 22 on an operation to Mülheim. Passing over the Netherlands, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Maarn, killing the entire crew.
Crew:
F/Sgt John Trevor Winterbon, pilot,
Sgt Edmond Alexis Duchene, flight engineer,
F/O Eric George Grove, navigator,
Sgt Wilson Hebenton Gordon, bomb aimer,
F/Sgt John William Bembridge, wireless operator,
Sgt William Patrick Smith, air gunner,
F/Sgt John Sidney Francis Victor Crawley, air gunner.
Crew:
F/Sgt John Trevor Winterbon, pilot,
Sgt Edmond Alexis Duchene, flight engineer,
F/O Eric George Grove, navigator,
Sgt Wilson Hebenton Gordon, bomb aimer,
F/Sgt John William Bembridge, wireless operator,
Sgt William Patrick Smith, air gunner,
F/Sgt John Sidney Francis Victor Crawley, air gunner.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.
