North Sea

The airplane departed RAF Holme-on-Spalding-Moor at 1730LT on an operation to Wilhelmshaven. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
F/Sgt Alan Ernest Hiley, pilot,
Sgt Fred Travis Spivey,
Sgt Frederick Harley Paterson,
Sgt Reginald Thomas Bozier,
Sgt Richard Arthur Collins,
Sgt Thomas Teviotdale,
Sgt Sydney George Quinlan, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Scampton at 1741LT on an operation to Wilhelmshaven. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
Sgt Kenneth Trevor Dutton, pilot,
Sgt Charles Frederick Clout,
Sgt Eric William Inwood,
W/O Lloyd Willis Brayford,
F/Sgt Theadore Edgar Casey,
Sgt William Halliday,
Sgt Robert Edward Dignum, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Dishforth at 1710LT 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:
P/O John Augustin Poirier, pilot,
P/O Arthur Lesley Worsley,
F/Sgt Frederick Charles Bitten,
Sgt Harold James Martin,
Sgt Roy Benjamin Bloom,
F/Sgt Alfred Frederic Guillemette, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Topcliffe at 1722LT to lay mines. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
P/O Edmund Thomas Cox, pilot,
W/O Eddie Donald Coates,
Sgt Francis John Allen,
F/Sgt Harvey McKerr Duke,
F/O Joseph Moses Patterson,
F/Sgt Alfred Ernest Booth, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Ridgewell at 1804LT on a mine laying operation off the Frisian Islands. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
F/Sgt J. Wood, pilot,
Sgt A. Carr,
Sgt J. F. Christon,
Sgt W. G. Harris,
Sgt D. W. Howard,
Sgt S. Baxter,
Sgt C. C. Greenaway,
Sgt L. A. France, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF East Wretham at 1842LT on an operation to Hamburg. While returning to base in the late evening, the crew sent distress calls at 2311LT, 2320LT and 2344LT. The airplane crashed into the North Sea, some 28 km north of Dunkirk (at third transmission, position plotted at 51°14'N and 2°07'E). Lost without trace.
Crew:
P/O Charles Tuma, pilot,
P/O Frank Slaney Potter,
Sgt Kenneth Spooner,
Sgt Maurice Arthur Pollard,
F/Sgt Harry Robertson McKay, air gunner.

Failed to return to base and believed to have crashed into the North Sea off the East Anglia coast while testing the rear ammunition pans. Lost without trace.
Crew:
F/O Lemuel George Littell, pilot,
P/O Frederick Henry Dinnage, observer,
F/Sgt Walter Joseph Bryan, wireless operator and air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Syerston at 0010LT 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 Howard Edward Johnson, pilot,
F/O Christopher James Gill,
Sgt Donald Coy,
Sgt James Langrell,
Sgt Norman Marshall,
Sgt Willie Cotton,
Sgt Reginald Stone, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Croft at 1345LT 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:
P/O Cecil Joseph Bennett, pilot,
F/O Hugh Benjamin Kent,
F/Sgt Lloyd Watson Phillips,
F/Sgt Willard Warren Wallace,
F/Sgt Charles Joseph Smith, air gunner.

The airplane departed Sumburgh on a maritime patrol flight off the Norwegian coast. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
P/O Eric John Gleeson, pilot,
F/O Kevin James Murphy, navigator,
Sgt Henry Witte, wireless operator,
Sgt Ronald James Booth, air gunner.