Tempsford AFB

The airplane departed RAF Tempsford on a Special Operation with a crew of five on board. in unclear circumstances, it crashed at 0030LT on the south bank of the Cher River in Saint-Loup. All five occupants evaded.
Crew:
S/L Harold Aittken Outram,
F/Lt Harry Leslie Holliday,
P/O Laurence Wilson,
P/O Ernest Richard Walsh Wood,
Sgt G. F. Foster.

The airplane departed RAF Tempsford on Special Operation called 'Operation Lettuce 5'. Over the Netherlands, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Holten. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
S/L William Twiston Davies, pilot,
F/Sgt Leonard Sidney Franklin, observer,
F/Sgt Trevor Morgan Gray, wireless operator,
Sgt Philip Thomas Wright, wireless operator,
Sgt Edward Henry Kerry, air gunner,
Sgt Derrick Frank Staton, air gunner,
Sgt Geoffrey Barrington Wood, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Tempsford on a Special Duties Service (secret unrecorded operation). Over North of France, it went out of control and crashed 1,5 km from Vire. Four crew members were killed while the air gunner became PoW.
Crew:
F/Sgt John Owen, pilot, †
Sgt Douglas Thornton, pilot, †
Sgt James Whalley, observer, †
F/Sgt William George Rock, wireless operator,
Sgt Philip Highmore Avery, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Tempsford at 2300LT on a Special Duty Operation. It crashed for unknown reasons few minutes after liftoff and was wrecked. There were no casualties among the crew.
Crew:
Sgt W. Smith +5.

The airplane departed RAF Tempsford to drop leaflets over the region of Saint-Etienne, France. On returning to their briefed landing
airfield at RAF Tangmere, the crew encountered a very thick mist and were ordered to divert to RAF Boscombe Down. While doing so the Whitley, flying too low, crashed and caught fire on the experimental range at Porton Down. Four crew members were killed and the air gunner was injured.
Crew:
P/O Ivan Anderson Miller, pilot, †
Sgt Raymond Fred Shaddick, pilot, †
F/Sgt Walter John Edward Lines, observer, †
Sgt Sydney William Francis Leigh, wireless operator, †
Sgt K. Hubbard, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Tempsford on Operation 'Watercress', the first of a series of operations involving the dropping of Dutch agents, code named 'Nordpol Spiel' by the British and England Spiel by the Dutch. The passenger, a Dutch agent (Lt A. A. Baatsen) was parachuted some 30 km north from Zwolle and was almost immediately captured by the German. Shortly after midnight, while cruising along the Dutch coast, the airplane was shot down by a Me.110 and crashed about 500 metres offshore. All six crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt William Charles Evans,
P/O Robert William Franklin,
Sgt Kenneth Hailstone,
F/Sgt John Thompson,
P/O Stanley Widdup,
Sgt George Robert Wood.