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The airplane departed RAF Marham to lay mines in the French coastal waters. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the Celtic Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
Sgt Charles Aitken,
F/Sgt James William Newman,
Sgt Eric Featherstonhaugh Stanley,
Sgt Arthur Kay Taylor-Thomas,
Sgt Gerald Osmond Tyler.

The airplane departed RAF Mildenhall to lay mines of Saint-Nazaire. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the Celtic Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
W/O Eliner Knud Alfred Andersen, pilot,
F/Sgt Athol Ian McDonogh,
F/Sgt Arthur Hector Robitaille,
Sgt George Stead,
F/Sgt Richard Charles Stuart.

The airplane departed RAF Feltwell at 2040LT on August 18 on an operation to Flensburg. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
P/O Robert Perrin McLaren, pilot,
P/O Kivell Harold William Alderton,
Sgt William Edwin Collins,
Sgt Hector John Wakeman, air gunner,
Sgt John Charles Williams, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Binbrook at 2035LT on August 18 on an operation to Flensburg. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
P/O Douglas William Rowe, pilot,
F/Sgt Robert Leslie Sinclair Ritchie, observer,
Sgt Leslie Douglas Graves,
Sgt John Anthony Sharp, wireless operator,
Sgt Charles Black, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Bradwell Bay on an operation to Dieppe (Operation Jubilee). After being hit by enemy fire, the crew ditched the airplane into The Channel. A crew was killed and two others were rescued.
Crew:
Sgt W. L. Buchanan,
P/O Paul Clark Gillicuddy, observer, †
Sgt C. G. Scott.

The airplane was engaged in an operation to England when it crashed in unknown circumstances into the North Sea while approaching the British coast. All four crew members were killed.

The airplane departed RAF St Eval at 1145LT to attack the tanker named 'Coruna' cruising north of Spain. It is believed that it was shot down by enemy fire while attacking the tanker and failed to return to base. Lost without trace.
Crew:
F/O Archibald Leonard Searby, pilot,
P/O Arthur Eaton, flight engineer,
Sgt Ian Verdun Witham, navigator,
Sgt Albert Eric Townsend, bomb aimer,
F/O Rupert Alexander Haig, wireless operator,
Sgt David Canet, air gunner,
Sgt Samuel Richard Vowles, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Swinderby at 2145LT on Augusts 17 on an operation to Osnabrück. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
F/O John Shirley Bunbury,
Sgt Maurice Patrick Gallagher,
F/O Alexander Gordon MacDonald,
Sgt Ashleigh Thomas Mears,
Sgt Stewart Robertson Mitchell,
Sgt Glyndwr Phillips,
Sgt Peter Simpson.

Ditched in the sea for unknown reasons. All crew members survived. The airplane sank and was lost.

The airplane departed NAS Kodiak on a transport flight to Seattle with an intermediate stop in Whitehorse, Yukon. This plane was the lead transport in a formation of three. Aboard were 10 passengers and four crew members from the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps. During the first leg of the flight the weather was terrible with storm like conditions and the three transports became separated and cut radio communications with ice forming on the wings of each plane. This plane was last seen during a break in the weather over the southern tip of the Yakutat mountains of Alaska. When this plane failed to arrive it was officially listed as Missing In Action (MIA). The other two transports landed at Whitehorse Airfield and Watson Lake safely.
Crew:
L/Cdr Jerome H. Sparboe, pilot,
Ens Charles L. Mixon, copilot,
ACRM Charles E. Barber, radio operator,
Cpt Arthur Burton Barrows.