Date & Time: Jul 13, 1943 at 0030 LT
Type of aircraft:
Handley Page H.P.57 Halifax II
Operator:
Registration:
JD155
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Military
Survivors:
No
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Tempsford - Tempsford
Location:
Pont-Audemer
Eure
Country:
France
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 Tempsford in the evening of July 12 on a Special Operation Executive (SOE) - Operation Roach 94/Roach 92 and set course for France. Shortly after midnight, it crashed in unknown circumstances near the Château de Lillebec located 2 km southeast of Pont-Audemer. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew (138 Sq):
F/Sgt Edward Jonski, pilot,
F/Lt Julian Morawski, flight engineer,
Sgt Konrad Joseph Tomaszewski, observer,
F/Lt Napoleon Stanisław Lewicki, navigator,
F/Lt Leon Stanisław Bonk, wireless operator,
F/Sgt Jan Nawrot, air gunner,
F/Sgt Edmund Rusinski, air gunner.