Date & Time:
Jun 22, 1943 at 0138 LT
Type of aircraft:
Vickers 440 Wellington X
Operator:
Registration:
HE924
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
No
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Kirmington - Kirmington
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 Kirmington at 2341LT on June 21 on an operation to Krefeld. Passing over the Netherlands, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Neerkant, killing the entire crew.
Crew:
F/Sgt Arthur Burgess, pilot,
P/O George Roland Wright, navigator,
P/O James Karl Somers, wireless operator,
F/Sgt William Francis Payne, bomb aimer,
Sgt Eric Jeffs, air gunner.
Crew:
F/Sgt Arthur Burgess, pilot,
P/O George Roland Wright, navigator,
P/O James Karl Somers, wireless operator,
F/Sgt William Francis Payne, bomb aimer,
Sgt Eric Jeffs, air gunner.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.
