Flamborough

The crew was performing a maritime patrol flight off the East Yorkshire coast. While completing a turn at low height, the seaplane hit the water surface and crashed few hundred yards off Flamborough Head. All three crew members were killed.
Crew (278th Squadron):
F/Lt Colin Graham Robertson,
F/Lt Cecil Gloucester Walker,
W/O Leonard Albert Gordon Carpenter.

The airplane departed RAF Breighton at 1700LT on January 17 on an operation to Berlin. While returning to base the following night, it ran out of fuel and was abandoned at an altitude of 5,000 feet off Flamborough Head. A crew was killed and six others were rescued.
Crew:
Sgt W. M. Wendon, pilot,
Sgt C. Askam,
Sgt A. Kennedy,
Sgt D. A. Corfe, †
Sgt R. A. Williams,
Sgt R. G. Wynn,
Sgt A. C. Johnston, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Driffield at 1720LT for a Bulls Eye exercise, testing the defenses of Leeds and Sheffield and other towns. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed into the North Sea some 35 km east of Flamborough, at coordinates 54° 05' N 0° 25' E. Lost without trace.
Crew:
Sgt Robert Egerton, pilot,
F/O George Leslie Sellars, flight engineer,
Sgt David Dorn,
W/O Donald Lorne Hogben,
Sgt Joseph Davison, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Feltwell at 1935LT on September 20 on an operation to Berlin. While returning to base the following night, it was ditched into the sea off Flamborough following a fire in the starboard engine and a loss of power on the port engine. Five crew members were rescued while a sixth was killed.
Crew:
Sgt John Hillhouse Sherriff, †
Sgt J. C. McGeagh,
Sgt C. G. Freeman,
Sgt J. J. O. Pyne,
Sgt E. E. Hartland,
Sgt S. H. Dunn.

The airplane departed RAF Leeming at 2051LT on September 11 on an operation to Warnemünde. While returning to base the following morning, the airplane ran out of fuel and ditched some two miles off Flamborough. All five crew members were rescued about an hour later.
Crew:
P/O A. E. Hacking, pilot,
Sgt Mackenzie,
Sgt Turner,
Sgt Davidson,
Sgt McBride.

The airplane departed RAF Leeming at 2242LT on July 7 on an operation to Osnabrück. While returning to base the following morning and approaching the British coast, it crashed into the sea off Flamborough. All four crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt Harris Black,
Sgt Hubert Richard Heighton,
F/Sgt Owen Roderick Lucas,
F/Sgt Robert Henry Thompson.

The airplane departed RAF Oakington at 1358LT on an operation to Bremen. While returning to base in the afternoon and approaching the British coast, it was shot down by a Me.109 and crashed in the North Sea some 30 km east of Flamborough. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/Sgt Douglas William Ernest Chapple,
Sgt Arthur Thomas Cole,
F/Lt John Kenneth Collins,
Sgt William Hardie,
Sgt Charles Kelly,
Sgt Gordon Thomas Webb,
Sgt Frederick Charles Williams.

The airplane was engaged in a raid over RAF Driffield. Approaching the coast of East Yorkshire, it was shot down by a British fighter and crashed into the sea. All four crew members were killed.

The airplane was engaged in a raid over RAF Driffield. Approaching the coast of East Yorkshire, it was shot down by a British fighter and crashed into the sea. All four crew members were killed.
Crew:
Uffz Joachim Resin, observer,
Uffz Werner Jünnemann, air gunner,
Fw Alfred Schumann, wireless operator +1.

The airplane was engaged in a raid over RAF Driffield. Approaching the coast of East Yorkshire, it was shot down by a British fighter and crashed into the sea. All four crew members were killed.
Crew:
Lt Wolf-Dietrich Riede, pilot,
Uffz Fritz Hartwich, observer,
Uffz Peter Panhuysen, wireless operator,
Flgr Richard Ulbricht, air gunner.