North Sea

The airplane departed RAF Wickenby at 1857LT on a mine laying operation in the Nectarines area. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere in the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
W/O Donald Courtenay Marshall, pilot,
Sgt William Donald Dorey,
W/O John Albert Buick,
F/Sgt Raymond Frank Cripps,
Sgt George Denby Hester,
F/Sgt Sydney Vincent Ramsay,
W/O John Edward Bradley, air gunner.

The airplane departed Soesterberg AFB on an operational sortie. It crashed in unknown circumstances somewhere in the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
Lt Heinz-Wolf Krabbenhöft,
Uffz August Winkelbauer,
Fw Karl Pankehe,
Uffz Karl Jansen.

The airplane departed RAF Binbrook in the evening of December 17 on an operation to Cloppenburg. The following night, it failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
P/O Frederick Andrew Couper, pilot,
F/O John Williams, flight engineer,
P/O Peter Rowland Ackernley, observer,
F/Sgt L. Edwin Francis McKenna,
P/O Sidney Charles McLellan,
P/O William Turner Pickles,
F/Sgt Arthur Taylor, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Swinderby in the evening of December 11 on a maritime patrol flight. In unknown circumstances, it crashed into the North Sea off the Norwegian coast. Two crew members were killed and two others became PoW.
Crew:
P/O Geoffrey Ian Gunton, pilot,
P/O Thomas Alfred Edgoose, navigator, †
Sgt Douglas Frederick Thomas, wireless operator,
Sgt Arnold Errol Crossley, air gunner. †

The airplane departed Deelen AFB to lay mines in the mouth of the Humber River. It was shot down by a British fighter and crashed into the North Sea some 80 km off Cromer. All four crew members were killed.
Crew:
Oblt Erich Hackel, pilot,
Ofw Hermann Heidt, observer,
Uffz Rudolf Heydenreich, radio operator,
Uffz Rudi Franke, mechanic.

The airplane departed RAF Pocklington at 1708LT on December 6 on an operation to Mannheim. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
Sgt Frederick David Buchwalter, pilot,
Sgt David Martin Sannholm, flight engineer,
F/Sgt Clifford Carr,
F/Sgt William Edward Hawke,
Sgt Henry Jones,
Sgt Charles Ronald Pendelpho,
Sgt John Thomas Pinkney, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Great Massingham at 1122LT on an operation to Eindhoven. Approaching the Dutch coast, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed into the North Sea, probably off the North Beveland Island. Lost without trace.
Crew:
W/O Alan Johnstone Reid, pilot,
F/O Derrick Redvers Redbourn, navigator,
F/Sgt William John Alton Spriggs, wireless operator,
P/O John William Beck, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Bradwell Bay at 2108LT to drop leaflets over Namur, Belgium. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
P/O Charles Douglas Marshall, pilot,
P/O Joseph William Robert Pavitt, navigator,
P/O Gilbert James Lawson, wireless operator.

The crew departed RAF Bradwell Bay to drop leaflets over Roulers, Belgium. The airplane failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
F/Sgt M. R. Lockwood,
Sgt R. V. Levers,
Sgt J. G. Chabot.

The airplane departed RAF Kirmington at 2005LT 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:
Sgt George Edmund Henry Ceeny, pilot,
Sgt Kenneth Magness,
F/Sgt Dennis Goodwill Smith,
Sgt Joseph Wood,
Sgt Dennis Robert Riley, air gunner.