Date & Time:
Feb 13, 1943
Type of aircraft:
Vickers 417 Wellington III
Operator:
Registration:
BK330
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
No
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Middleton Saint George - Middleton Saint George
Country:
France
Region:
Europe
Crew on board:
5
Crew fatalities:
5
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
0
Other fatalities:
0
Total fatalities:
5
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Middleton Saint George at 1819LT on an operation to Lorient. Approaching the target area, it crashed for unknown reasons in Penquer, northeast of Morlaix. All five crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/O Leo Garth Gibson, pilot,
F/O Frederick Russell Chapman, navigator,
Sgt Thomas Vesteinn Hughes, radio operator,
Sgt Bernard Welby Somerford, bomb aimer,
F/Sgt Donald Andrew McDonald, air gunner.
Crew:
F/O Leo Garth Gibson, pilot,
F/O Frederick Russell Chapman, navigator,
Sgt Thomas Vesteinn Hughes, radio operator,
Sgt Bernard Welby Somerford, bomb aimer,
F/Sgt Donald Andrew McDonald, air gunner.
