Oran-Tafraoui AFB

The crew left Lartigue Airbase (Tafraoui AFB) in Oran on a maritime patrol flight along the coast, between cape Carbon and Cape Tenès, Algiers region. While flying northwest of Béjaïa, the airplane encountered strong downdrafts and crashed on a rocky terrain overlooking the sea. The copilot was killed while three other occupants were injured.
Crew:
T/Sgt Parfait, pilot,
T/Sgt Thinon, copilot, †
T/Sgt Pichon, gunner,
T/Sgt Jean Claude Deniel, radio operator.

While performing a solo training mission at Oran-Tafraoui Airfield (called BAN Lartigue in the 40's), the pilot lost control of the aircraft that crashed in Ouardia, about 2 km from the airport. The pilot Robert Georges Gosselin was killed.

The twin engine airplane departed Oran-Tafraoui Airport at 0645LT on an anti submarine patrol flight. While cruising along the Spanish coast, it crashed in unknown circumstances into the sea off Santa Pola, some 20 km south of Alicante. All four crew members were killed.
Crew (223rd Squadron):
Sgt John Stewart Greaves, pilot,
Sgt Edward Brown, navigator,
Sgt Edward Victor Evans, bomb aimer,
Sgt John Joseph Griffin, bomb aimer.

On final approach to Oran-Tafraoui AFB, the airplane collided with birds, stalled and crashed few hundred metres short of runway, bursting into flames. All five crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt Austin E. Otoole +4.