Date & Time:
Apr 17, 1943 at 0209 LT
Type of aircraft:
Vickers 440 Wellington X
Operator:
Registration:
HE387
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
No
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Leconfield - Leconfield
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 Leconfield at 2109LT on April 16 on an operation to Mannheim. While returning to base the following night, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Couvron-et-Aumencourt. All five crew members were killed.
Crew:
P/O Ivor Malcolm Payne Morgan, pilot,
F/Sgt Roy Hill, navigator,
F/O Albert William Arnold Trevarthen, bomb aimer,
Sgt Norman Bruce, wireless operator,
Sgt Leslie Pickford, air gunner.
Crew:
P/O Ivor Malcolm Payne Morgan, pilot,
F/Sgt Roy Hill, navigator,
F/O Albert William Arnold Trevarthen, bomb aimer,
Sgt Norman Bruce, wireless operator,
Sgt Leslie Pickford, air gunner.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.
