Date & Time:
Jun 13, 1943 at 0204 LT
Type of aircraft:
Handley Page H.P.57 Halifax II
Operator:
Registration:
HR740
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
Yes
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Lissett - Lissett
Country:
Netherlands
Region:
Europe
Crew on board:
7
Crew fatalities:
0
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
0
Other fatalities:
0
Total fatalities:
0
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Lissett at 2312LT on June 12 on an operation to Bochum. Passing over the Netherlands, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Oldenzaal. Six crew members became PoW and one evaded.
Crew:
Sgt Stanley Charles Brown, pilot,
Sgt Verdun Leslie Martin, flight engineer,
W/O Roy Barnard, navigator,
P/O Jim Graham Fyfe, bomb aimer,
Sgt S. G. Holroyd, wireless operator,
Sgt Horace Leary, air gunner,
Sgt Robert William Robinson, air gunner.
Crew:
Sgt Stanley Charles Brown, pilot,
Sgt Verdun Leslie Martin, flight engineer,
W/O Roy Barnard, navigator,
P/O Jim Graham Fyfe, bomb aimer,
Sgt S. G. Holroyd, wireless operator,
Sgt Horace Leary, air gunner,
Sgt Robert William Robinson, air gunner.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.
