Date:	Sunday 12 July 1942
Time:
Type:	Vickers Wellington Mk Ic
Owner/operator:	23 OTU RAF
Registration:	R1414
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RAF Pershore -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Pershore
Destination airport:	RAF Pershore

Narrative:
On return from a training flight, pilot omitted to extend landing gear. Aircraft belly landed, caught fire and was completely destroyed by the flames. The crew all exited safely but the tail gunner had to make his way all the way from the rear of the aircraft to the front exiting via the cockpit, he suffered minor burns.

Crew:-
Pilot : Sergeant Raymond Rogers Foltz RCAF R/79246
Navigator : Sergeant Leo McClellan Lymburner RCAF R/122558
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Sergeant Roy Norman Victor Burke RCAF R/102904
Rear Gunner : Sergeant J P Duval RCAF [Injured]

Foltz and Burke were later killed in Wellington BJ765, 9 Nov 1942
Lymburner was later killed ion Wellington X3390, 2 March 1943

https://www.rcafassociation.ca/heritage/search-awards/?search=R125456%2FJ18359&searchfield=servicenumber&type=all
https://www.rcafassociation.ca/heritage/search-awards/?search=Lymburner&searchfield=lastname&type=all
https://sites.rootsweb.com/~nbpennfi/penn8b2Lymburner_JAL.htm
Personnel records of all 4 RCAF crew members from Archives DND Archives Canada
RCAF historical microfilms
23 OTU records from The National Archives UK
https://www.aviationarchaeology.org.uk/marg/crashes1942.htm
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Mar-2024 16:31	tachel	Added
17-Mar-2024 16:31	tachel	Updated [Operator, ]
17-Mar-2024 16:33	tachel	Updated [Narrative, ]
17-Mar-2024 16:36	tachel	Updated [Source, ]
12-Dec-2024 15:56	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]
12-Dec-2024 15:58	Rob Davis	Updated [Date, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, ]