Date & Time:
Jun 22, 1943
Type of aircraft:
Avro 683 Lancaster
Operator:
Registration:
EE121
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
No
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Wyton - Wyton
Country:
World
Region:
World
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 Wyton at 2320LT on June 21 on an operation to Krefeld. It was shot down by a German fighter and crashed into the North Sea off the Frisian Islands, killing the entire crew.
Crew:
F/O Howard Mappin, pilot,
Sgt Clarence Edgar Wiggett, flight engineer,
Sgt Arthur John Boar, navigator,
Sgt George Alfred Livett, bomb aimer,
Sgt Arthur Allan Crank, wireless operator,
Sgt William Anderson, air gunner,
Sgt Francis William Turner, air gunner.
Crew:
F/O Howard Mappin, pilot,
Sgt Clarence Edgar Wiggett, flight engineer,
Sgt Arthur John Boar, navigator,
Sgt George Alfred Livett, bomb aimer,
Sgt Arthur Allan Crank, wireless operator,
Sgt William Anderson, air gunner,
Sgt Francis William Turner, air gunner.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.
