Deal

The airplane departed RAF Methwold at 0956LT on an operation to Courtrai-Wevelghem. Approaching Calais, it was badly shot about by a German fighter and later crash landed west of Bettshanger Wood near Deal. All four crew members escaped unhurt.
Crew:
Sgt D. H. Lear, pilot,
Sgt J. Childs,
Sgt J. T. Price,
P/O J. R. Hutchison, air gunner.

The airplane was returning to RAF Gransden Lodge following a Special Wireless Investigation flight with a crew of six on board. Approaching the English coast, the crew was forced to ditch the airplane for unknown reasons about 200 metres from the beach near Deal. All six crew members were rescued, among them four were injured.
Crew:
P/O Edwin Amos Paulton, pilot,
P/O William Alexander Renton Barry, navigator,
P/O Harold Graham Jordan, special equipment operator,
F/Sgt William Walter Bigoray, wireless operator,
F/Sgt Frederick Percy Grant, air gunner,
F/Sgt Everitt Thomas Vachon, air gunner.

The airplane was returning to base at RAF Hunsdon following a maritime patrol flight when it crashed for unknown reasons in Deal. Both crew members were killed.
Crew:
W/Cdr Arthur Thomas Drake Sanders, pilot,
F/O Sydney Austin.

The airplane departed Wyton in an attempt to raid Wesel using cloud cover. Due to clearing skies, the crew returned to base when the airplane was shot down by a Me.109 and crashed into the seas off Deal. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt Kenneth Godfrey Howard Davies, flight engineer,
Sgt Alfred James Higgison,
F/O Sydney Douglas Marshall,
Sgt Gordon Hogarth Mayor,
P/O John Davis Walker McCallum, observer,
F/Sgt Charles George White, wireless operator,
Sgt Arthur Walter Dudley Frost, air gunner.

The crew departed RAF Detling at 1450LT on a maritime patrol flight over the North Sea. While flying along the Belgian coast, off Ostende, the twin engine aircraft was attacked by the pilots of three German Me.109. Several bullets hit the wings and the ailerons and the crew decided to return to UK. While approaching the British coast, an engine failed, forcing the pilot to ditch the aircraft off Kent at 1830LT. All four occupants were quickly rescued by the crew of a British destroyer while the aircraft sank and was lost.
Crew (48th Squadron):
F/O G. H. Wherry,
P/O G. C. Alington,
Cpl A. D. C. Harding,
LAC L. S. Dilnutt.