Date:	Thursday 13 May 1943
Time:	02:13
Type:	Vickers Wellington Mk X
Owner/operator:	431 (Iroquois) Sqn RCAF
Registration:	HE440
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Huppel F20, NE of Winterswijk, Gelderland -   Netherlands
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Bourn
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Manfred Meurer of the 3./NJG 1, flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Venlo airfield.

Target: Duisburg
Call Sign: SE-Y
Takeoff time: 23:45

Crew:-
Pilot : Sergeant George Robert Yorston Wood RAF 658403 [Killed]
Navigator : Sergeant Edward Leo Gummer RAFVR 1379214 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Sergeant Innis Edward Mobley RAF 1575533 [Killed]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Sergeant Andrew Cresswell RAFVR 1210978 [Killed]
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Sergeant Thomas Haig Smith RAFVR 993817 [Killed]

All lie at the Winterswijk Cemetery, Netherlands (51.980817 / 6.725805)

Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 Part One
SGLO database - https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/ahome/lossregister/results?sglo=T2304

- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft HA100 - HZ999, published 1989

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Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
30-Dec-2011 03:23	Uli Elch	Updated [Aircraft type, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ]
10-May-2018 09:49	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ]
14-Oct-2018 16:08	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Operator, ]
17-Jun-2022 01:35	Ron Averes	Updated [Location, ]
11-May-2023 19:33	TigerTimon	Updated
11-May-2024 06:56	Rob Davis	Updated [Source, Narrative, ]