North Sea

The airplane was shot down by a British fighter and crashed into the sea some 140 km east southeast of Lerwick, Shetland Islands. All four crew members were killed.
Crew:
Lt Julius Kienlin, pilot,
Uffz Günther Weinrebe, flight engineer,
Fw Wilhelm Bosse, radio operator,
Oblt Rudolf Schabert, observer.

The airplane departed RAF Foulsham at 1357LT to attack the Purfina and Sinclair oil facilities alongside the Gent-Terneuzen canal. It was shot down by a German fighter and crashed into the North Sea off the Belgian coast. All four crew members were killed.
Crew:
P/O Walter Henry Cappleman, pilot,
P/O John Lewis Leigh,
W/O Ralph Chaytor Brown,
F/O Daniel James Murray, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Foulsham at 1355LT to attack the Purfina and Sinclair oil facilities alongside the Gent-Terneuzen canal. It was hit by the German Flak and later shot down by a German fighter and crashed into the North Sea off the Belgian coast. All five crew members were killed.
Crew:
W/Cdr Cyril Carlile Hodder, pilot,
Sgt Harold Liddell,
F/Lt Ralph Watkin,
F/O Robert Henry Longhorn,
P/O Michael George Coyle, 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.

The airplane departed RAF Croft at 1702LT to lay mines in the Nectarines region. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
F/Lt Derrick Alan Shead, pilot,
P/O Gordon Ray Hoyt,
Sgt William John Oram,
P/O Michael Patrick,
Sgt John Lewis Sparling, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Middleton Saint George at 1710LT to lay mines in the Nectarines region. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea, possibly north of the Dutch coast. Lost without trace.
Crew:
F/Sgt Steve John Gergley, pilot,
W/O Charles William Hollingshead,
F/O Ewald George Kendel,
Sgt Alvin Gustav Olsen,
F/Sgt Ronald Hanson Welsh,
Sgt Clifford Alexander Dunphy, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Rufforth at 1717LT to lay mines in the Nectarines region. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
Sgt Ronald Maversley Scratchley, pilot,
Sgt Norman Reginald Bennet, flight engineer,
F/O Ivan Reginald Willis, navigator,
Sgt Ronald McNeil, bomb aimer,
Sgt Joseph Reginald Kau, wireless operator,
Sgt William Houston Bower, air gunner,
Sgt Norman Ridley, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Bottesford at 1705LT on 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:
Sgt Kenneth Roy Aicken, pilot,
Sgt Alfred Percy Smith,
Sgt Christopher Searle Morley,
Sgt Frank Hanson,
F/O Thomas Olver Truscott,
Sgt William Jesse Carter,
Sgt Frank Logie, air gunner.

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 Graveley at 1703LT on an operation to Berlin. Radio contacts were recorded at 2030LT and 2102LT then the airplane crashed in unknown circumstances into the North Sea off the Danish coast. Four crew members were killed and three others were rescued and became PoW.
Crew:
S/L Ian Morgan Rutherford Brownlie, pilot,
F/Sgt Frederick Donald McColl, navigator, †
F/Sgt Jack Kenneth Corke,
Sgt Albert Mark Taylor,
P/O Frederick Arthur Brybrook, wireless operator, †
P/O William Austin McMullan, air gunner, †
P/O Lawrence Rockliffe Adcock, air gunner. †