Date & Time:
Mar 30, 1943 at 0428 LT
Type of aircraft:
Avro 683 Lancaster
Operator:
Registration:
ED435
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
Yes
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Fiskerton - Fiskerton
Country:
Netherlands
Region:
Europe
Crew on board:
7
Crew fatalities:
3
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
0
Other fatalities:
0
Total fatalities:
3
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Fiskerton at 2201LT on March 29 on an operation to Berlin. While returning to base the following morning, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Nieuw-Heeten. Three crew members were killed and four others became PoW.
Crew:
Sgt David Wilson Fyffe, pilot,
Sgt Ernest Roy McCracken, flight engineer,
P/O Arthur Tedder Longford Cullum, navigator,
Sgt Robert Charles Link, bomb aimer,
W/O Frank Arthur McNutt, wireless operator, †
Sgt Thomas Fazakerley, air gunner, †
Sgt James Robertson, air gunner. †
Crew:
Sgt David Wilson Fyffe, pilot,
Sgt Ernest Roy McCracken, flight engineer,
P/O Arthur Tedder Longford Cullum, navigator,
Sgt Robert Charles Link, bomb aimer,
W/O Frank Arthur McNutt, wireless operator, †
Sgt Thomas Fazakerley, air gunner, †
Sgt James Robertson, air gunner. †
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.
