Date & Time:
May 13, 1943
Type of aircraft:
Short S.29 Stirling
Operator:
Registration:
BF381
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
No
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Chedburgh - Chedburgh
Country:
Germany
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 Chedburgh at 0026LT on an operation to Duisburg. It crashed in unknown circumstances in Ruhrort, in the north outskirt of Duisburg. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
P/O Harold Broadbent, pilot,
Sgt Stanley Frederick Dean, flight engineer,
P/O Henry Catch, navigator,
Sgt Norman Douglas, bomb aimer,
Sgt William Frederick Walter Hards, wireless operator,
Sgt John Arthur Brown, air gunner,
Sgt William Duthie, air gunner.
Crew:
P/O Harold Broadbent, pilot,
Sgt Stanley Frederick Dean, flight engineer,
P/O Henry Catch, navigator,
Sgt Norman Douglas, bomb aimer,
Sgt William Frederick Walter Hards, wireless operator,
Sgt John Arthur Brown, air gunner,
Sgt William Duthie, air gunner.
