Armstrong Whitworth AW.38 Whitley

The crew was completing a night training flight and was returning to his base in Belfast-Aldergrove when the pilot in command lost his orientation and continued to the northeast to Scotland. While running out of fuel in low visibility, the aircraft hit the slope of a mountain located in the Fathan Glinne Mountain Range, near the village of Balquhidder, by the Loch Voil. A crew member was seriously injured while five others were killed.
Crew:
Sgt John James Westoby, pilot, †
Sgt William John Barnfather, pilot, †
Sgt John Whitsed, observer, †
Sgt James Gerrard Curtis, wireless operator and air gunner, †
Sgt Jack Perfect, wireless operator and air gunner, †
Sgt W. S. Hamilton, air gunner.

On a night training flight, the aircraft hit a hill located southwest of Nairn. Three crew members were seriously injured while four others were killed. Two days later, one of the survivor died from his injuries.
Crew (19th OTU):
F/Lt Raymond Wilson Pitts McFarland, pilot,
Sgt Kenneth Johnson Sampson, pilot, †
F/O Alexander Chalmers Barrie, navigator, †
Sgt Ronald Hartley, air bomber, †
F/Sgt Arthur Thomas Hawkins, wireless operator and air gunner, †
Sgt Ronald Alfred Hartwell, wireless operator and air gunner, †
Sgt Padley, air gunner.

The airplane crashed in unknown circumstances in Landivy and was destroyed. All five crew members survived, two evaded and three became PoW.
Crew:
F/Lt Hereward Tweedale Winter, pilot,
Sgt Stanley McLeod, copilot,
P/O William Struth Spittal, navigator,
Sgt Charles L. Hodgson, radio operator,
F/Sgt Michael Raleigh Gibbs, air gunner.

The airplane was engaged in an operation to Distré (attack of an electric station). Approaching the target area, it was shot down by the German Flak. While trying an emergency landing, the airplane collided with a pine tree and crashed in a field located in the hamlet of Les Monteaux, west of Vivy. Four crew members were killed and one became PoW.
Crew:
W/Cdr Philip Michael Vaughan Lysaght, pilot, †
F/O James Hamish Cameron McIlwrick, pilot, †
Sgt Ivor William Arnold, navigator, †
W/O Joseph Elzear Sahl Sasseville, wireless operator, †
Sgt Joseph Bailey, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Netheravon at 1858LT to drop leaflets over Châteauroux. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into The Channel. Lost without trace.
Crew:
Sgt William Ronald Erasmus, pilot,
Sgt Sidney Albert George Wraight, observer,
Sgt Jack Heaton Beebe, radio operator,
F/Sgt Edward Froggatt, air gunner.

The crew was performing a training flight on behalf of the 3rd OTU. While cruising in the vicinity of Boston, the airplane suffered a double engine failure, forcing the pilot to attempt an emergency landing. The airplane belly landed in a ploughed field located in Hubberts Bridge, slid for few dozen metres and eventually collided with a tree. All six crew members escaped uninjured and the airplane was damaged beyond repair.
Crew:
Sgt G. C. Wright,
Sgt T. E. Bach,
Sgt N. Brook,
Sgt A. S. Fox,
Sgt W. J. Hargreaves,
Sgt R. E. S. Morrish.

The airplane departed RAF Tilstock on a cross country exercise. En route, it went out of control and crashed in unknown circumstances near Bwlchgwyn. All eight crew members were killed.
Crew:
W/O David Rozell Roberts, pilot,
Sgt Cyril Edgar Aaron,
P/O Ronald James Binham,
Sgt Alexander Taylor Strachan,
Sgt David Blackburn Lister,
F/Sgt Robert Smeaton,
Sgt Michael John Buckle,
F/Sgt William Henry Stewart.

The airplane departed RAF St Eval on an anti-submarine patrol mission with a crew of six on board. While returning to base at the end of the afternoon, the crew encountered foggy conditions and was unable to locate the airbase. The pilot was advised to try RAF Chivenor or Exeter but these airfields were also fogbound. Because the airplane was low on fuel, the captain ordered his crew to bail out and later attempted to land at RAF Davidstow Moor. On approach, both engines failed due to a fuel exhaustion, and the airplane stalled and crashed in Lewannick, some 13 km southeast of the airfield. The pilot was killed. All five other crew members parachuted to safety.
Crew:
Sgt Frank Charlton, pilot, †
Sgt J. H. Worthingon,
Sgt G. Llewellyn,
Sgt H. F. Le Marchant,
Sgt G. W. Glenncross,
P/O T. M. Clutterbuck.

The airplane departed RAF St Eval on an anti submarine operation off the French coast. It was shot down by a four German fighters and crashed into the sea off Saint-Brieuc. All six crew members were killed.
Crew:
P/O Percival Allan Davies, pilot,
Sgt Maurice Thorpe Denham, pilot,
Sgt Richard Rawcliffe, observer,
P/O Vivian James Wotton, bomb aimer,
F/Sgt Thomas Henry Miller, air gunner,
P/O Robert Sword, air gunner.

The crew departed RAF Netheravon to drop leaflets over Roubaix. It is believed that the airplane crashed near Abbeville. All five crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/O Clifford Wood, pilot,
Sgt Cecil Graham George Hobson, flight engineer,
F/O D'arcy Clive Melville Ducker, radio operator,
F/O William Archibald Hinselwood, observer,
F/Sgt Douglas Lambert Grant, air gunner.