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The bomber departed Creil Airport on an operation to England but crashed for unknown reasons in The Channel. All four crew members were killed.
Crew:
Oblt W. vom Felde, pilot,
Fw P. Schönhoff, observer,
Fw R. Janocha, radio operator,
Fw W. Rübich, mechanic.

The airplane departed RAF Linton-on-Ouse at 2041LT on April 17 on an operation to Berlin. While returning to base the following night, it was hit by the German Flak over Hamburg, which wrecked the port engine. At 0350LT the starboard motor seized and caught fire, followed ten minutes later by a ditching in the North Sea. Late in the evening of April 20, a Hudson sighted the crew in their dinghy and a second Hudson later dropped Lindholme rescue gear in their vicinity. At 2230LT that same evening on very exhausted bomber crew were rescued by an ASR launch some 64 hours after coming down in the sea.
Crew:
P/O A. A. Law,
Sgt A. Whwell,
P/O McNeil,
Sgt Rose,
Sgt Steggall.

The airplane departed RAF Mildenhall at 0055LT on an operation to Cologne. It was lost without trace, probably it crashed somewhere in the North Sea. All six crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt Edward Ernest Allnatt,
Sgt Talbot Charles Cyril Clifton,
Sgt Jack Peel,
P/O Kenneth Ernest Platt,
Sgt Harry Spencer Walters,
Sgt John Wood.

The airplane departed RAF Topcliffe at 2027LT on April 17 on an operation to Berlin. It was lost without trace, maybe it crashed somewhere in the North Sea. All five crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/Lt Donovan Gibson, pilot,
F/O Leslie Edward Pearson, pilot,
Sgt Cyril Edward Gansler, observer,
Sgt Harold Douglas Bowles, wireless operator,
Sgt Leonard William Flint, wireless operator.

The airplane departed RAF Topcliffe at 2037LT on April 17 on an operation to Berlin. It was hit by the German Flak over Hamburg and later crashed in the North Sea some 60 miles off Blyth. All five crew members were rescued.
Crew:
Sgt Cradduck,
Sgt Turner,
P/O Birch,
Sgt Morgan,
Sgt J. W. Middleton.

The airplane departed RAF Waddington at 2015LT on an operation to Berlin. It was lost without trace, maybe it crashed somewhere in the North Sea. All four crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/Sgt James Edward Sneeston, pilot,
Sgt Eric Norman Brundish,
Sgt John William Mulford,
Sgt John Melville Taylor.

The airplane departed RAF St Eval at 1310LT on an anti-shipping mission. It was shot down by the pilot of a Me.109 off Brittany and crashed in The Channel. All three crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt Lionel Lewis Evered,
Sgt Kenneth Gaston Gresty,
Sgt Ivor Griffiths Sarjeant.

The bomber crashed in unknown circumstances in the Irish Sea, killing the entire crew.
Crew:
Ofw Willi Becker,
R/Rat Georg Gründel,
Ofw Friedrich Zahn,
Gefr Horst Steinbrecht,
Ofw Friedrich Ehlerns.

The airplane departed RAF Alconbury at 2040LT on April 10 on an operation to Bordeaux. While returning to base the following night, it crashed for unknown reasons in The Channel. A crew was killed and five others were rescued and became PoW.
Crew:
P/O John Peter Leslie Branson, †
F/Lt Frederick Anthony Bowler,
F/Lt Leonard Stewart Dunley,
Sgt Edward Alan Jewson,
Sgt Ernest Spencer,
P/O Anthony Barclay Trench.

The airplane departed RAF Bodney at 1257LT on an anti-shipping operation off Heligoland, Germany. It was lost without trace, maybe it crashed somewhere in the North Sea. All three crew members were killed.
Crew:
P/O John Wilfred Gadsby,
F/Sgt John Maurice Irving,
Sgt John Gardner MacIlwraith.