Date & Time:
Apr 15, 1943 at 0250 LT
Type of aircraft:
Vickers 440 Wellington X
Operator:
Registration:
HE550
Flight Phase:
Flight
Flight Type:
Bombing
Survivors:
Yes
Site:
Plain, Valley
Schedule:
Middleton Saint George - Middleton Saint George
Country:
France
Region:
Europe
Crew on board:
5
Crew fatalities:
2
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
0
Other fatalities:
0
Total fatalities:
2
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Middleton Saint George at 2112LT on April 14 on an operation to Stuttgart. Homebound the following night, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Mesnil-Saint-Laurent. Two crew members were killed, two evaded and one became PoW.
Crew:
S/L F. V. Taylor, pilot,
F/O Sydney Brown, bomb aimer, †
P/O John Alexander Simpson, †
F/O G. C. Crowther,
Sgt Hugh Neil McKinnon.
Crew:
S/L F. V. Taylor, pilot,
F/O Sydney Brown, bomb aimer, †
P/O John Alexander Simpson, †
F/O G. C. Crowther,
Sgt Hugh Neil McKinnon.
Probable cause:
Shot down by a German fighter.
