Date & Time:
May 5, 1943 at 0209 LT
Type of aircraft:
Handley Page H.P.57 Halifax II
Operator:
Registration:
W7817
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
Yes
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Middleton Saint George - Middleton Saint George
Country:
Netherlands
Region:
Europe
Crew on board:
7
Crew fatalities:
1
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
0
Other fatalities:
0
Total fatalities:
1
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Middleton Saint George at 2301LT on April 4 on an operation to Dortmund. Passing over the Netherlands, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Noordeinde, 5 km southwest of Kampen. An air gunner was killed and six other crew members became PoW.
Crew:
F/O Charles Joseph Leonard Vaillancourt, pilot,
Sgt Angus Jaynes, flight engineer,
P/O Donald Grimshaw, navigator,
Sgt Norman Main Douglas, bomb aimer,
Sgt Angus Stewart Morrison, wireless operator,
Sgt James Lonnie Peck, air gunner,
F/Sgt Frederick Thomas Stanley, air gunner. †
Crew:
F/O Charles Joseph Leonard Vaillancourt, pilot,
Sgt Angus Jaynes, flight engineer,
P/O Donald Grimshaw, navigator,
Sgt Norman Main Douglas, bomb aimer,
Sgt Angus Stewart Morrison, wireless operator,
Sgt James Lonnie Peck, air gunner,
F/Sgt Frederick Thomas Stanley, air gunner. †
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.
