Date:	Monday 18 November 1940
Time:
Type:	Vickers Wellington Mk Ic
Owner/operator:	70 Sqn RAF
Registration:	T2827
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Danilovgrad -   Montenegro
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Tatoi, Greece
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Crashed. All five crew members and one journalist from The New York Herald Tribune died in the crash.

Crew:
924480 Sgt John PALMER SAMBORNE - killed - Belgrade War Cemetery, Serbia
42787 P/O William Graham BENNETT - killed - Belgrade War Cemetery, Serbia
628871 Sgt Geoffrey GREEN - killed - Belgrade War Cemetery, Serbia
580826 Sgt Geoffrey Bernard HAWKSLEY - killed - Belgrade War Cemetery, Serbia
630401 Sgt Frederick Lawrence SAVAGE - killed - Belgrade War Cemetery, Serbia

Passenger:
Ralph Wardo BARNES - Journalist for The New York Herald Tribune - killed - Florence American Cemetery, Italy

Ralph Barnes was the first war correspondent killed durning the war.

1.http://www.rafcommands.com/database/wardead/details.php?qnum=100779
2.http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/archive/index.php?t-39822.html
3.AIR81/4371
4.Bomber Command Losses In the Middle East and Med. (Volume 1: 1939-1942) David Gunby & Pelham Temple, page 31
5.CWGC
6.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Barnes_(journalist)

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
19-Nov-2020 12:02	gerard57	Added
02-Sep-2025 17:34	MMR	Updated [Country, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ]
02-Sep-2025 17:34	MMR	Updated