Date & Time:
May 13, 1943 at 0217 LT
Type of aircraft:
Vickers 440 Wellington X
Operator:
Registration:
HE321
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
No
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Dalton - Dalton
Country:
Netherlands
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 Dalton at 2342LT on May 12 on an operation to Duisburg. The following night, while passing over the Netherlands, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed near Deurningen. All five crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/Sgt Alan Edgar Hatch, pilot,
F/O Raymond Lamport Baumgarten, navigator,
F/Sgt Douglas Ray Horwood, bomb aimer,
Sgt William Leven, wireless operator,
F/Sgt Charles Clifford Hildreth, air gunner.
Crew:
F/Sgt Alan Edgar Hatch, pilot,
F/O Raymond Lamport Baumgarten, navigator,
F/Sgt Douglas Ray Horwood, bomb aimer,
Sgt William Leven, wireless operator,
F/Sgt Charles Clifford Hildreth, air gunner.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.
