North Sea

The airplane departed RAF Topcliffe at 2313LT on July 26 on an operation to Hamburg. Approaching the German coast, it was shot down by the German Flak and crashed into the North Sea. Two crew members were killed and five others were rescued and became PoW.
Crew:
P/O William Henry Baber, observer, †
Sgt Gwilyn Mieron Jones, wireless operator, †
Sgt John Brian Downes,
Sgt Joseph Stanley Higgin,
Sgt Joseph William Vine,
Sgt Walter Gordon Wilcox,
Sgt John Malcolm Macdonald Wilson.

The airplane departed RAF Middleton St George at 2253LT on July 26 on an operation to Hamburg. It failed to return to base and is believed to have been shot down by a German fighter and to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
Sgt Guy Andre Rene Bissonnette,
Sgt Wili Iam Kenneth Daniel,
Sgt Lionel George Dowling,
Sgt David Horgan,
F/O Charles Mitchener,
Sgt Walter John Taylor,
Sgt Ernest Arthur Tweedale.

The airplane departed RAF Linton-on-Ouse at 2301LT on July 26 on an operation to Hamburg. It failed to return to base and is believed to have been shot down by a German fighter and to have crashed into the North Sea at coordinates 54° 47' N 06°00' E, some 140 km northwest of Heligoland Island. Lost without trace.
Crew:
Sgt John Luke Graham,
Sgt Ellis Albert Holland,
P/O Derrick Arnold Holliger,
Sgt Frank William Huntley,
Sgt Henry Goodrich Le Barr Pakenham-Walsh,
F/Sgt Norman McInnes Rattray,
Sgt Peter Horace Smith.

The airplane departed RAF Grimsby at 0039LT on an operation to Duisburg. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
P/O Noel Geoffrey Sprake, pilot,
Sgt Orme Kedgley,
Sgt Roy Albert Mansell,
Sgt Douglas Wallace Moss,
P/O Bertram Noel Ward.

The airplane departed RAF West Raynham at 2355LT on July 25 on an intruder operation to Leeuwarden. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
F/Sgt Percy Gartshore Leslie,
F/Sgt Robert Ainslie Smith,
W/O Eugene Edward Warnick.

The airplane departed Deelen AFB on an operation to Bedford, UK. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
Cpt Karl-Heinz Marten, pilot,
Obfw Werner Starker, observer,
Obfw Siegfried Schwickart, radio operator,
Obfw Wilhelm Lutz, mechanic.

The airplane departed RAF Grimsby at 2359LT on July 21 on an operation to Duisburg. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
F/Sgt Ronald Vandersteen, pilot,
Sgt David Berger, observer,
Sgt Norman Wilfred Dawkins, wireless operator,
Sgt Richard Arthur Evans, air gunner,
Sgt Robert Kenneth McGrath, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF West Raynham at 2250LT on July 21 on an operation to the airfield of Ahlhorn located 13 km northeast of Cloppenburg, Germany. The airplane failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed into the North Sea off the Danish coast. Lost without trace.
Crew:
F/O Leslie John Jackson, pilot,
Sgt Samuel Beaumont, observer,
Sgt Albert Harris, wireless operator and air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Hemswell at 2346LT on July 21 on an operation to Duisburg. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashes somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
P/O Harry Ludomir Bock, pilot,
P/O Wiktor Lipowczan, observer,
Sgt Jan Pawlak, wireless operator,
P/O Adam Kazimierz Glowacki, air gunner,
Sgt Michal Barteczko, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Feltwell at 0010LT on an operation to Duisburg. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
Sgt Thomas Wakefield, pilot,
Sgt Thomas Abel Jones, observer,
Sgt John Willoughby Morgan, wireless operator,
Sgt Hamish Ross, air gunner,
Sgt John Alfred Wright, air gunner.