La Baule-Escoublac

Crashed on landing at La Baule-Escoublac Airport for unknown reason. There were no injuries but the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.

The airplane departed RAF Molesworth in the morning on an operation to Saint-Nazaire. Approaching the target area, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed. Seven crew members were killed and three others became PoW. The ball turret gunner, though suffering shrapnel wounds, was thrown from the wreckage without his parachute at 20,000 feet, lost consciousness due to altitude, free fell and plunged through a glass roof of the Saint-Nazaire station. He was found alive but with serious injuries tangled in the steel roof girders of the railway station. Saved by German medical care, he spent the rest of war in prison camps.
Crew:
1st Lt Arthur Irwin Adams, pilot, †
2nd Lt Gene Adam Witterstetter, copilot, †
T/Sgt Dennis C. Hart, mechanic, †
T/Sgt Alfred Morris Union, radio operator, †
2nd Lt Glen Marshall Herrington, navigator,
2nd Lt Michael Lawrence Libonati Jr., bomb aimer, †
S/Sgt Edward William Durant, air gunner, †
Sgt Marvin L. Milam, air gunner, †
S/Sgt Alan Eugene Magee, air gunner,
S/Sgt James Ira Gordon, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Binbrook on an operation to Saint-Nazaire. While approaching the target area, the bombs were released when the airplane caught fire and crashed. Four crew members were killed and two others bailed out and became PoW.
Crew:
Sgt Einar Ernest Due, pilot, †
Sgt Robert Eric Greenwell, pilot, †
F/Lt T. A. Mayo, observer,
F/Sgt Gordon John Sheahan, wireless operator, †
Sgt John Henry Ives, air gunner, †
Sgt Alister McGregor Currie, air gunner.

The airplane departed La Baule-Escoublac Airport on a flight to Chartres with one pilot and one passenger on board. En route, he encountered engine problems and decided to reduce his altitude and to attempt an emergency landing in a wheat field. The aircraft landed long and eventually collided with a tree before coming to rest. Both occupants escaped uninjured and the aircraft was destroyed. The aircraft was had the dual registration F-AMOR and CT-16.
Crew:
Gaston Lefol, pilot.
Passenger:
Albert Etévé, General Inspector for Aeronautic.