Date & Time:
May 30, 1943 at 0050 LT
Type of aircraft:
Vickers 440 Wellington X
Operator:
Registration:
MS494
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
Yes
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Leconfield - Leconfield
Country:
Netherlands
Region:
Europe
Crew on board:
5
Crew fatalities:
1
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
0
Other fatalities:
0
Total fatalities:
1
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Leconfield at 2226LT on May 29 on an operation to Wuppertal. Passing over the Netherlands, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Reuver. The air gunner was killed and four other crew members became PoW.
Crew:
Sgt Lindsay Oliver Howard Upjohn, pilot,
Sgt James Paterson, navigator,
Sgt Robert Alexander Napier, bomb aimer,
Sgt William Vernon Garfield, wireless operator,
F/Sgt Francis Hay, air gunner. †
Crew:
Sgt Lindsay Oliver Howard Upjohn, pilot,
Sgt James Paterson, navigator,
Sgt Robert Alexander Napier, bomb aimer,
Sgt William Vernon Garfield, wireless operator,
F/Sgt Francis Hay, air gunner. †
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.
