Date & Time:
May 1, 1943 at 0226 LT
Type of aircraft:
Handley Page H.P.57 Halifax II
Operator:
Registration:
JB803
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
No
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Elvington - Elvington
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 Elvington at 2353LT on April 30 on an operation to Essen. Passing over the Netherlands, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Muiden, killing the entire crew.
Crew:
Sgt Gordon Watson, pilot,
Sgt Ian Douglas Crawford, flight engineer,
F/O Arthur Edward Parsons, navigator,
Sgt Leon Hannam, bomb aimer,
Sgt William Robert Louth, wireless operator,
Sgt Raymond Shepherd, air gunner,
F/Sgt Thomas Deuel Scarff, air gunner.
Crew:
Sgt Gordon Watson, pilot,
Sgt Ian Douglas Crawford, flight engineer,
F/O Arthur Edward Parsons, navigator,
Sgt Leon Hannam, bomb aimer,
Sgt William Robert Louth, wireless operator,
Sgt Raymond Shepherd, air gunner,
F/Sgt Thomas Deuel Scarff, air gunner.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.
