Date & Time:
Jun 25, 1943 at 0230 LT
Type of aircraft:
Avro 683 Lancaster
Operator:
Registration:
LM327
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
No
Site:
Lake, Sea, Ocean, River
Schedule:
Bourn - Bourn
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 Bourn at 2241LT on June 24 on an operation to Wuppertal. While returning to base the following night, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed into the North Sea off the Dutch coast. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/Lt Joseph Laurence Moore, pilot,
F/Sgt Robert Alfred Kerckhove, flight engineer,
S/L James Parker McMillin, navigator,
P/O William James Stephen, bomb aimer,
F/Sgt Alan Tomlinson, wireless operator,
Sgt John William Darroch, air gunner,
Sgt Louis Leslie Davis, air gunner.
Crew:
F/Lt Joseph Laurence Moore, pilot,
F/Sgt Robert Alfred Kerckhove, flight engineer,
S/L James Parker McMillin, navigator,
P/O William James Stephen, bomb aimer,
F/Sgt Alan Tomlinson, wireless operator,
Sgt John William Darroch, air gunner,
Sgt Louis Leslie Davis, air gunner.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.
