Topcliffe AFB

The airplane crashed upon landing at RAF Topcliffe while performing a local training exercise. There were no fatalities.
Crew:
Sgt A. H. Steen, pilot +3.

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 Topcliffe at 1647LT on an operation to Lorient. While returning to base in the late evening, it ran out of fuel with its radio unserviceable and was abandoned by the crew and crashed in a field located in Winterslow. All six crew members parachuted to safety, among them two were injured.
Crew:
Sgt R. M. Buie, pilot,
P/O K. C. E. Wade,
Sgt L. K. Taylor,
Sgt H. R. Cook,
Sgt A. G. Lees,
Sgt H. L. Davis, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Topcliffe at 1715LT on an operation to Lorient. Over France, it was shot down by the German Flak and crashed in Éréac. Three crew members were killed and three others parachuted to safety and became PoW.
Crew:
Sgt Vernon Frederick McHarg, pilot, †
Sgt Arthur Graydon Ingram,
Sgt Allan Cruickshank Riach,
Sgt Kenneth George Vallis,
Sgt Max Ernest Putnam, wireless operator, †
F/Sgt Wallace Alfred Lawrence Masterman, air gunner. †

The airplane departed RAF Topcliffe at 1005LT on a transit flight to RAF Beaulieu, carrying seven crew members, eight passengers and a load of various equipment including a number of bicycles. Two minutes after takeoff, while climbing at a height of 300 feet, the airplane turned onto its back and crashed near Melmerby, 8 km west of the airbase. All 15 occupants were killed. This accident was considered as one of the worst of the non operational during WWII.
Crew:
W/O Stephen Frederic Gannon, pilot,
Sgt Earl Lewis McGillivray, flight engineer,
Sgt George Robert Ian Taylor, navigator,
P/O Allen Catto Bradley, bomb aimer,
Sgt William Stanley Milne, wireless operator,
F/Sgt Melville James Stanley, air gunner,
Sgt Orlando Delmar Conrad Hamel, air gunner.
Passengers:
F/Sgt Norman Wilbur Ross,
F/O Benjamin Hugo Enns,
P/O Samuel Stewart Clark,
Sgt Ralph Elliott Milliken,
Sgt Joseph Jones,
F/Sgt William Michael Kostenuk,
Sgt Francis Hooton,
Cpl Joseph Victor Raoul Beaudry.

The airplane departed RAF Topcliffe at 1855LT on an operation to Cologne. While returning to base in the late evening, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Waterloo, south of Brussels. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/Sgt John A. Longley, pilot,
Sgt Albert V. Milot, flight engineer,
F/Sgt Arhur G .Lee, observer,
F/O Mansell M. Tomlinson, observer,
F/Sgt F. Levi, radio operator,
F/Sgt Gerald E. Lewis, air gunner,
Sgt Irving Arbuckle, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Topcliffe at 1854LT on an operation to Osnabrück. While returning to base at the end of the evening, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Rhenen. An air gunner was killed while six other crew members became PoW.
Crew:
P/O Thomas Walker Stewart, pilot,
Sgt James Charles Mackie, flight engineer,
Sgt Gilbert Bryce Anderson, navigator,
P/O Edward Eggertson, bomb aimer,
Sgt Norman Edwin Brown, wireless operator,
Sgt Francis Anthony McCluskey, air gunner, †
Sgt Archibald Marshall Eldes Moodie, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Topcliffe on the evening of October 5 on an operation to Aachen. While returning to base the following night and arriving over the south coast, it was short of fuel. The pilot decided to divert to RAF West Malling but the first attempt to land failed. While going around, the airplane stalled and crashed in Wrotham, northwest of the airbase. Five crew members were killed and two others were injured.
Crew:
Sgt M. Hudema, pilot, †
Sgt J. E. Park, †
Sgt N. Gislason, †
Sgt R. M. Reilly,
F/O R. S. Erickson, †
Sgt J. F. P. Behn, †
F/Sgt F. R. O'Neill.

The airplane departed RAF Topcliffe at 1826LT on an operation to Krefeld. Over the Netherlands, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed on a farm located in Noordwijkerhout. All seven crew members as well as two children in the farm were killed. Two other people on the ground were injured.
Crew:
W/O Edward Warren Murphy, pilot,
F/Sgt David George Hackett, flight engineer,
F/Sgt Maxwell Ben-Hertz, observer,
Sgt George Henry Shannon, observer,
Sgt Sidney Messham, wireless operator,
F/Sgt Charles Joseph Neubert, air gunner,
F/Sgt Lionel Harry Williams, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Topcliffe at 1753LT on an operation to Flensburg. Approaching the target area, it was shot down by the German Flak and crashed in Niehuus, some 6 km northwest of Flensburg. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/O Edward Carl Olsen, pilot,
Sgt Ben Bales Copeland, flight engineer,
P/O John Colwell Kitchen, observer,
F/Sgt Aaron Joseph Ronnie Vineberg, observer,
F/Sgt Albert Martin Carter, wireless operator,
P/O Arthur Monson Green, air gunner,
F/Sgt William Granger McCron, air gunner.