Date:	Monday 24 May 1943
Time:	01:08
Type:	Vickers Wellington Mk X
Owner/operator:	166 Sqn RAF
Registration:	HE290
MSN:	AS-J
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Leppepaalweg, Rutbeek, near Buurse, Overijssel -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Kirmington (EGNJ), Lincolnshire
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Shot down at 5000 meters by a Bf 110 G-4 (coded G9+AD) of the Stab III./NJG 1, flown by Hauptmann Wolfgang Thimmig during a raid on Dortmund.

Takeoff time: 23:19

Crew:-
Pilot : Sergeant Edward Silas Morris RAFVR 656599 [Killed]
Navigator : Sergeant Frederick Victor George Alloway RAFVR 1238809 [Killed]
Navigator : Sergeant Harold Blamire Thompson RAFVR 1483381 [Killed]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Sergeant Ronald Frederick Williamson RAFVR 1074636 [Killed]
Air Gunner : Flight Sergeant Joseph Robert Stewart RCAF R/138281 [Killed]

All lie at the Haaksbergen General Cemetery, Netherlands (52.156455 / 6.745260)

https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T2364&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Air Britain: RAF Aircraft HA100 - HZ999, published 1989
Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
166 Sqn wartime records from The National Archives UK
Archives Canada
Air Gunner Stewart's personnel file from Ancestry.ca
RCAF Losses 1943
https://aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=he290&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
17-Jun-2009 07:05	w.bleumink	Updated
30-Dec-2011 07:40	Uli Elch	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ]
10-Jan-2013 13:08	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Narrative, ]
23-May-2018 08:07	TigerTimon	Updated [Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ]
23-May-2018 19:32	TigerTimon	Updated [Narrative, ]
02-Nov-2018 18:26	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator, ]
18-May-2024 06:54	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]
13-Jun-2025 05:11	tachel	Updated [Cn, Source, Narrative, ]