Unit: 458 Squadron
Aircraft: Wellington
Code: Z1218-FU-D
Base: Holme on Spalding Moor
Mission: Antwerp
Crew officer: Incident: Shot down by German fighter
Location: (Prov. Hainaut)
Facts
Wellington Z1218 took off from RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor, Yorkshire, to bomb the Antwerp docks, Belgium.
The plane crashed in Marchienne. Five out of six crew members died in the crash. They are buried at Charleroi Communal Cemetery.