Bombing

The airplane departed RAF Middleton Saint George at 1626LT on an operation to Lorient. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere in The Channel. Lost without trace.
Crew:
F/O Eugene Joseph Stanton, pilot,
P/O Frank Noon,
F/O Walter Douglas Marks,
Sgt Wilfred George Goode,
F/Sgt Joseph Claude Desrosiers, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Leeming at 1656LT on an operation to Lorient. Approaching the target area, it crashed in unknown circumstances in Cléguer, some 11 km north northeast of Lorient Airport. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/O Theunis Christoffel Roux, pilot,
F/O Edwin Payling,
Sgt Francis Anthony Cavadino,
Sgt Joseph Rostron,
P/O Rowland George Brinkworth,
Sgt William Kenneth Barton,
Sgt James Dick Adam, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Hemswell at 1614LT to lay mines off Lorient. Passing over Brest, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed into sea off the city. All five crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/O Adam Pankiewicz, pilot,
Sgt Edmund Jerzy Malinowski, navigator,
Sgt Tadeusz Glowczynski, radio operator,
F/O Tolimir Władysław Kozlowski, observer,
Sgt Wiktor Sroka, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Kirmington at 1717LT on an operation to Lorient. Approaching the target area, the airplane crashed in unknown circumstances, killing the entire crew.
Crew:
P/O Robert Malcolm Gray, pilot,
Sgt Bernard Martin,
Sgt George William Jackson,
Sgt Robert Thomas Sharp,
Sgt Douglas Ernest Hardy, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Rufforth at 1712LT on an operation to Lorient. It crashed in unknown circumstances in Plougasnou, 14 km north of Morlaix. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
P/O Sydney Henry White, pilot,
Sgt Nicholas Pringle, mechanic,
P/O Kenneth Charles Hammond, navigator,
P/O Michael Kerslake Brett, radio operator,
P/O Ronald George Woods, bomb aimer,
Sgt Henry Berryman Moorshead, air gunner,
Sgt Thomas Leslie Gray, air gunner.

The airplane departed Amsterdam-Schiphol on an operation to England. Approaching the English coast, it was shot down by a British fighter and crashed into the sea some 6 km southeast of Great Yarmouth. All four crew members were killed.
Crew:
Uffz Horst Schwarze, pilot,
Uffz Walter Pilz, observer,
Uffz Paul Wagner, radio operator,
Uffz Karl Herbinger, air gunner.

The airplane departed Sochi-Adler Airport on a combat mission. Southwest of Krasnodar, it was shot down by the German Flak and crashed in Abinsk. All four crew members were killed.
Crew:
S/Lt Alexey Petrovich Karelin, pilot,
M/Lt Alexander Grigorievich Fenin, navigator,
Sgt Ivan Kipriyanovich Dedovich, radio operator,
Sgt Lev Pavlovich Melamed, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Pocklington at 1810LT on January 27 on an operation to Düsseldorf. Shortly after midnight, while returning to base, it was shot down by the German Flak and crashed into the Waddenzee east of Den Helder. Three crew members were killed and three others became PoW.
Crew:
F/Lt Bruce Keith Lindsay, pilot, †
Sgt William Alan Bennett, flight engineer, †
F/Lt Gerald James O’Hanley, navigator, †
F/O James Malcolm Colquhoun, bomb aimer,
Sgt Alan Frederick Turner, wireless operator,
Sgt Reid Thompson, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Snaith at 1750LT on an operation to Düsseldorf. It was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Huize Padua, near Handel. Three crew members were killed and four others became PoW.
Crew:
W/O Lawrence O'neill Weakley, pilot, †
Sgt Peter Anthony Best, pilot,
Sgt Robert Hough, flight engineer,
Sgt Clifford Street, navigator,
Sgt John Alexander Daragon, bomb aimer, †
P/O Eric Victor John Purnell, wireless operator,
F/Sgt Louis James Hammond, air gunner. †

The airplane departed Deelen AFB on an operation to the Thames estuary. While returning to base in the evening, it crashed on final approach and was destroyed by fire. All four crew members were killed.
Crew:
Fw G. Gross, pilot,
Uffz B. Breuer, observer,
Uffz A. Eisenhardt, radio operator,
Uffz E. Blösch, air gunner.