Date & Time:
May 14, 1943
Type of aircraft:
Handley Page H.P.57 Halifax II
Registration:
BB328
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Military
Survivors:
No
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Tempsford - Tempsford
Country:
France
Region:
Europe
Crew on board:
6
Crew fatalities:
6
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
0
Other fatalities:
0
Total fatalities:
6
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Tempsford in the evening of May 13 on Operation Physician 10 / Roach 6. It crashed in unknown circumstances in Pont-Audemer, killing the entire crew.
Crew:
F/O Thomas Noble, pilot,
Sgt James Woods, flight engineer,
Sgt Dudley Frank West, navigator,
Sgt Kenneth Hubbard, wireless operator,
Sgt Douglas Albert Ball, air gunner,
F/Sgt John Patrick Keating, air gunner.
Crew:
F/O Thomas Noble, pilot,
Sgt James Woods, flight engineer,
Sgt Dudley Frank West, navigator,
Sgt Kenneth Hubbard, wireless operator,
Sgt Douglas Albert Ball, air gunner,
F/Sgt John Patrick Keating, air gunner.