Date & Time:
Oct 15, 1942 at 2256 LT
Type of aircraft:
Short S.29 Stirling
Operator:
Registration:
R9146
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
No
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Chedburgh - Chedburgh
Country:
Netherlands
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 2000LT on an operation to Cologne. Over the Netherlands, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Oss, killing the entire crew.
Crew:
F/O John Mitchell Paape, pilot,
Sgt Jack Holmes, flight engineer,
Sgt Leslie Frank Meadows, navigator,
Sgt Joseph G. Ferris, air bomber,
F/Sgt Raymond Gerard Brasnett, wireless operator,
Sgt Harold Hancocks, air gunner,
Sgt Kenneth Penwill Stibbs, air gunner.
Crew:
F/O John Mitchell Paape, pilot,
Sgt Jack Holmes, flight engineer,
Sgt Leslie Frank Meadows, navigator,
Sgt Joseph G. Ferris, air bomber,
F/Sgt Raymond Gerard Brasnett, wireless operator,
Sgt Harold Hancocks, air gunner,
Sgt Kenneth Penwill Stibbs, air gunner.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.
