Linton-on-Ouse AFB

The airplane departed RAF Linton-on-Ouse at 1900LT on March 1st on a mine laying operation. While returning to base in the late evening, it overshot and crashed some 1,100 metres beyond the runway. Moments before the impact, the bomber sliced through the tops of trees standing nearby. A crew was killed and seven others were injured.
Crew:
Sgt A. R. Short, pilot,
F/Sgt A. H. Evans,
P/O B. W. Ingham,
Sgt R. E. J. White, †
Sgt J. B. Brophy,
Sgt R. G. Perrett,
Sgt V. Delaroy-Hall,
Sgt T. Ellwood, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Linton-on-Ouse at 1820LT on March 1st on an operation to Berlin. While returning to base the following night, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed into the sea some 40 km west of Texel Island. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/O Norman Scott Black, pilot,
Sgt Herbert John Gruntman, flight engineer,
Sgt Leslie Harold Gregson, navigator,
F/O Eric Alfred Taylor, bomb aimer,
Sgt Gustave Prigent, wireless operator,
Sgt John Raymond Barrett, air gunner,
Sgt Jack Ryder, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Linton-on-Ouse at 1827LT on March 1st on an operation to Berlin. Shortly after midnight, while returning to base, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Kasterlee. Five crew members were killed, two became PoW and one evaded.
Crew:
S/L J. L. Fletcher, pilot, †
S/Lt A. T. Wheatley, †
Sgt V. J. Crutch,
F/O E. L. Souter-Smith,
P/O W. P. A. Blackman,
F/Sgt G. G. Stanley, †
Sgt L. A. Trinder, †
Sgt H. B. Moore, air gunner. †

The airplane departed RAF Linton-on-Ouse at 1920LT on an operation to Nuremberg. Immediately after takeoff, it suffered a loss of engine power, stalled and crashed just beyond the airfield. All seven crew members escaped with various injuries.
Crew:
Sgt J. E. Sanderson, pilot,
Sgt A. Shillock,
Sgt J. N. D. Curtis,
Sgt A. E. Robbins,
Sgt H. G. M. Robinson,
Sgt R. G. Morgan,
P/O J. B. H. Morris, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Linton-on-Ouse at 1815LT on an operation to Hamburg. Approaching Bremen, it was shot down by the German Flak and crashed in Stickgras, in the suburb of Delmenhorst. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/O Frederick Buchan, pilot,
Sgt Charles Milburn, flight engineer,
F/Sgt Harmon Wendellyn Laughlan, observer,
P/O Francis Arnold Davies, navigator,
F/Sgt Victor Ronald Wood, wireless operator,
Sgt William James Higgs, air gunner,
F/Sgt Aeneas Francis MacDonald, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Linton-on-Ouse at 1706LT on January 21 to lay mines in the Nectarines area. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
Sgt Deryck Holmes, pilot,
Sgt Dennis Cecil Hunt,
Sgt Frederick Ernest Williams,
Sgt John Fleming McFarlane,
Sgt Philip Ferguson,
Sgt Thomas William Robson,
Sgt Francis Albert Hughes, air gunner.

While performing a local training flight at RAF Linton-on-Ouse, the airplane overshot while landing and crashed, wrecking its undercarriage. There were no injuries among the crew.
Crew:
F/Sgt J. G. Gillow, pilot +4.

The airplane departed RAF Linton-on-Ouse at 1622LT on January 17 an operation to Berlin. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
Cpt Bjørn Håkon Naess, pilot,
Sgt Alan Richard Saunders,
Sgt Alan Victor Stinton,
Lt Bjarne Indseth,
Sgt Leslie Lamb,
Sgt Malcolm Charles Moody,
Sgt Peter Harry Green, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Linton-on-Ouse at 1637LT on an operation to Berlin. Passing north of Hamburg at night, it was shot down by the German Flak and crashed in a meadow near Glashütterstrasse in Lemsahl-Mellingstedt, some 17 km north north-east of Hamburg city center. All seven occupants were killed.
Crew:
P/O David Alan Gold, pilot,
P/O Alfred William Stevenson,
Sgt Arthur Donald Tidmarsh,
F/Sgt Charles Albert Gruchy,
Sgt Douglas Robertson Dewar,
Sgt John Ward,
P/O Albert Harry Piggs, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Linton-on-Ouse at 1738LT on an operation to Duisburg. While returning to base in the evening, the crew called for help at 2115LT and again at 2119LT. Moments later, both engines on the port side failed and the bomber began to lose height, eventually coming down at 2258LT in the sea some 48 km off Great Yarmouth. Five crew members were killed and two others were rescued at 0040LT the following night.
Crew:
W/O James Albert Hunter, pilot, †
Sgt C. Baillie, flight engineer,
F/Sgt J. Ashworth, navigator,
P/O Albert Lloyd Fox, observer, †
W/O Edward Cecil Malone, wireless operator, †
Sgt Arthur William Edwards, air gunner, †
F/Sgt Joseph Leopold Rene Kingsley, air gunner. †