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| Date: | Sunday 16 July 1944 |
| Time: | 01:35 |
| Type: |  Vickers Wellington Mk X |
| Owner/operator: | 30 OTU RAF |
| Registration: | NC678 |
| MSN: | BT-Y |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 5 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Cannock Bombing Range, Staffordshire -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Hixon |
Aircraft was hit by another bomber's flash bomb and caught fire while at 7500 feet over the Cannock Bombing Range. The pilot instructed the crew to abandon the aircraft and did so himself after a short pause, but the crew did not
leave the aircraft for unknown reasons. It crashed at high speed killing all onboard. The pilot survived with injuries.
Crew:
Pilot: R/176653 Sgt D.L. Phillips (RCAF) - Injured
Navigator: J/38736 F/O Stanley Dickinson Mann (RCAF) - Killed
Bomb Aimer: R/191400 Sgt Patrick Charles Henry Mullins (RCAF) - Killed
Wireless Op/Air Gunner: R/163070 F/Sgt John Harrison Jones (RCAF) - Killed
Air Gunner: 1572317 Sgt John Douglas Duncan Watt (RAFVR) - Killed
Sources:
Loss report from the personnel files of the RCAF crew members
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/1526342
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/1526359
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/1526280
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2458303/john-douglas-duncan-watt/
https://aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=nc678&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact
Canada's Air War 1944
Images:
Official initial loss report
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 29-Apr-2023 15:28 | tachel | Added |
| 29-Apr-2023 17:29 | tachel | Updated |
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