Date & Time:
Aug 28, 1942
Type of aircraft:
Vickers 417 Wellington III
Operator:
Registration:
DF673
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
No
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Mildenhall - Mildenhall
Country:
Belgium
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 Mildenhall on an operation to Nuremberg. In the late evening, it crashed in unknown circumstances northeast of Moerbeke and was destroyed. All five crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/Sgt Charles Henry Vickers, pilot,
F/Sgt Sydney Bernard Thomas Davis, pilot,
F/Sgt Horace David Baittle, observer,
F/Sgt Daniel Archibald McKay, wireless operator,
F/Sgt Lawrence Donald Hiltz, air gunner.
Crew:
F/Sgt Charles Henry Vickers, pilot,
F/Sgt Sydney Bernard Thomas Davis, pilot,
F/Sgt Horace David Baittle, observer,
F/Sgt Daniel Archibald McKay, wireless operator,
F/Sgt Lawrence Donald Hiltz, air gunner.
