North Sea

The airplane departed RAF Alconbury at 2301LT on July 28 on an operation to Hamburg. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
F/Sgt John Terry Bray,
Sgt John Duthie,
Sgt William David Evans,
F/Lt John George Hudock,
W/Cdr Herbert Laurence Price,
Sgt Michael William Walsh.

The airplane departed RAF Wellesbourne Mountford at 2245LT on July 28 on an operation to Hamburg. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
F/Sgt Richard Butcher Ayers, pilot,
F/Sgt James Spencer Evans, observer,
Sgt F. E. Johnson,
Sgt E. G. White,
Sgt E. L. Wagner.

The airplane departed RAF Alconbury at 2258LT on July 28 on an operation to Hamburg. It was shot down by a German fighter and crashed into the North Sea, killing the entire crew.
Crew:
F/Sgt Ernest Richard Borsberry,
Sgt John George James Parrott,
P/O Philip Walker,
Sgt Brian Thomas James Woodland,
Sgt Kenneth John Yates.

The airplane departed RAF Honington at 2300LT on July 28 on an operation to Hamburg. Approaching the Dutch coast, it was shot down by the German Flak and crashed into the North Sea off Frisian Islands. All five crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/Sgt James Arthur Elmslie,
Sgt George Lionel Ferry,
Sgt Henry John Hannaford,
Sgt Eric Jesse King,
Sgt William Switzer Warren, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF East Moor at 2300LT on July 26 on an operation to Hamburg. After bombing, it flew into the barrage balloon defenses. Height was lost and shortly afterwards a German fighter attacked, inflicting damage of such severity that the crew were forced down off the German coast, where the Halifax broke into two sections. Four crew members were killed and three others were rescued and became PoW.
Crew:
Sgt Frederick William Holmes, †
Sgt Douglas George Mogg, †
P/O Frederick Sidney White, †
Sgt Francis Noel Wright, †
F/Sgt Donald McGregor Blott,
Sgt Cedric Bowen Bridgewater,
P/O Eric Johnstone.

The airplane departed RAF Waddington on an operation to Hamburg. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
F/Sgt Andrew Taylor Johnstone,
W/O Harold Naismith Law,
F/Sgt John James Price,
P/O George Edward Tilling.

The airplane departed RAF Grimsby at 2312LT on July 26 on an operation to Hamburg. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
Sgt Robert Bush,
F/Sgt Noel Ernest Robertson Carrel,
Sgt Stanley James Oertel,
Sgt James Octon Straffen,
Sgt Stanley William Walliter.

The airplane departed RAF Bourn on an operation to Hamburg. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
Sgt Donald Ernest Raymond, pilot,
Sgt David John Miller, observer,
Sgt Keith Malcolm McGregor, observer,
Sgt Alexander Lyle, wireless operator,
Sgt Jack Stead Jarvis, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Woodhall Spa at 2303LT on July 26 on an operation to Hamburg. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
Sgt Oswald Barraclough, air gunner,
F/Sgt John Peter Doyle,
Sgt Thomas Allison Grey,
Sgt Eric Norman Grimwood,
F/O William Archibald McMurchy,
F/Sgt John George Richardson,
P/O Kenneth James Williams.

The airplane departed RAF Feltwell in the evening of July 26 on an operation to Hamburg. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
F/Sgt Norman Albert Bryson,
F/Sgt Louvain Trevor Cairns,
Sgt Raymond Patrick Coppersmith,
F/Sgt Colin Valentine McPherson,
F/Sgt Stanley David Ross,
P/O Philip Charles Spittal.