Date & Time:
Jun 12, 1943 at 0122 LT
Type of aircraft:
Handley Page H.P.57 Halifax II
Operator:
Registration:
JB972
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
Yes
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Leeming - Leeming
Country:
Germany
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 Leeming at 2251LT on June 11 on an operation to Düsseldorf. Approaching Duisburg, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed southwest of Rheinberg. Three crew members were killed and four others became PoW.
Crew:
P/O Arthur Gordon Grant, pilot, †
Sgt Kenneth Richard Stentiford, flight engineer,
P/O Roy Elliott Carter, navigator,
P/O Theodore Bruce Moore, bomb aimer,
P/O Marcel Robert Laloge, wireless operator,
W/O Albert Edward Fowell, air gunner, †
F/Sgt James Murray Reginald Lang, air gunner. †
Crew:
P/O Arthur Gordon Grant, pilot, †
Sgt Kenneth Richard Stentiford, flight engineer,
P/O Roy Elliott Carter, navigator,
P/O Theodore Bruce Moore, bomb aimer,
P/O Marcel Robert Laloge, wireless operator,
W/O Albert Edward Fowell, air gunner, †
F/Sgt James Murray Reginald Lang, air gunner. †
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.
