Germany

The airplane departed RAF Stradishall at 2050LT on an operation to Kassel. Approaching Duisburg, it crashed in unknown circumstances in Issum, some 26 km northwest of Duisburg. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/O Alan Raymond Skone, pilot,
Sgt Jack King, flight engineer,
P/O Raymond Harold Dunckley, observer,
Sgt William James Bushell, wireless operator,
F/Sgt Robert Arthur Colehan, wireless operator,
F/Sgt Robert Reid Gray, wireless operator,
Sgt Cyril Lyle, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Warboys at 2035LT on an operation to Kassel. It was shot down by a German fighter and crashed somewhere in North Rhine-Westphalia. The exact location of crash is unknown.
Crew:
F/Sgt Ronald Vincent James, pilot,
F/Sgt Richard Maxwell Darling, observer,
Sgt Francis Norman Hadley, wireless operator,
Sgt Stuart Cecil Holden, wireless operator,
Sgt Gerald Walder, air gunner.

The crew was forced to make an emergency landing near Rantum. The airplane was destroyed by a post crash fire and there were no casualties.

The airplane departed RAF Wyton at 2113LT on August 24 on an operation to Frankfurt. Passing south of Fulda, it exploded and crashed in Kalbach, killing the entire crew.
Crew:
W/O Lloyd Truman Goodfellow, pilot,
Sgt John Joseph Mathieson, flight engineer,
F/O Eric Hurlstone Renfree, observer,
Sgt Ernest Webster, wireless operator,
Sgt Harry Young, wireless operator,
F/Sgt Clifford Howard John Byrd, air gunner,
Sgt Derek Leslie Howe, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Syerston at 2120LT on August 20 on an operation to Frankfurt. Approaching Cologne, it was shot down by the German Flak and crashed in Efferen. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
W/Cdr George Harcus Sheehan, pilot,
F/Sgt Noel Roy Meyer, pilot,
F/Sgt Benjamin John Davis, observer,
F/Sgt Joseph Mckay Atkinson, wireless operator,
Sgt Anthony Frederick Phillip Cursett-Sutherland, wireless operator,
Sgt John McCleary, air gunner,
Sgt Harold Ekin, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Downham Market at 2020LT on August 20 to lay mines in the Kiel Harbor. Approaching the target area, it was shot down by the German Flak and crashed in Langwedel, about 17 km southwest of Kiel. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/O Derek Vaughan Bullock, pilot,
Sgt Royston Dudley Rich, observer,
Sgt Harry Gordon Stubbs, flight engineer,
F/Sgt William Brown, wireless operator,
P/O Harry Churchill Reynolds, wireless operator,
F/Sgt John Adam Sparks, air gunner,
Sgt John Henry Webb, air gunner.

The twin engine airplane departed Berlin to South Germany with a pilot, a radio operator and a passenger on board. En route, it seems that the crew encountered marginal weather conditions and following an unknown technical failure, the pilot lost control of the airplane that crashed in Mühlberg an der Elbe. All three occupants were killed, among them Baron Carl August Freiherr von Gablenz, founder of the Deutsche Lufthansa.
Crew:
Carl August Freiherr von Gablenz, pilot,
ObFw Klaer, radio operator.
Passenger:
Dr. Carl Krümmel, Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Education.

The airplane departed RAF Downham Market at 2015LT to lay mines in the Cadet Channel. Over Germany, it was shot down by the German Flak and crashed onto houses near Goosefeld. Six crew members were killed and a seventh became PoW. On ground, four civilians were killed.
Crew:
F/Sgt Leonard Hartley, pilot, †
Sgt Norman Podmore, observer, †
Sgt John Arthur Sharpe, flight engineer, †
P/O Isaac Charles Newell, bomb aimer, †
F/Sgt Colin Hervey Barrow, wireless operator, †
Sgt George Ernest Smyth Wren, wireless operator, †
Sgt John Keith Young, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Downham Market to lay mines in the Fehmarn Channel. Over Germany, it was shot down by the German Flak and crashed near Brodersby. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/O Owen James Sanderson, pilot,
Sgt Raymond Tom Higgins, flight engineer,
P/O Gerald Leslie Tudor, observer,
F/Sgt Calvin Daniel Dixon, wireless operator,
F/Sgt John Farrimond, wireless operator,
Sgt Colin Smith, wireless operator,
Sgt Francis John James, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Ingham at 2157LT on August 17 on an operation to Osnabrück. It was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Emlichheim. A crew was killed and four others became PoW.
Crew:
Sgt Izydor Konderak, †
F/O K. Zakrzewski,
F/Sgt W. Vandalli,
Sgt J. Hmenia,
F/Lt Kasimierz Zakrzewski-Rucinski.