Calvados

The Dakota was taking part to the D-Day over Normandy and left RAF Blakehill Farm at 2317LT on June 5 with 4 crew members and several paratroopers on board. Over Calvados, all paratroopers bailed out and the crew continued at low altitude to join the K drop zone. On approach, the aircraft was hit by enemy fire. Two crew members, the navigator and the copilot, were able to bail out while the captain stayed in the aircraft with the air gunner who was injured and unable to bail out. The aircraft crashed in a field and while the air gunner was rescued, the captain was killed.
Crew (233th Squadron):
F/O Harvey Edgar Jones, pilot, †
F/Sgt J. A. Daldorph, copilot,
F/O L. H. Williams, radio navigator,
W/O N. Engleberg, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Melbourne at 2215LT on June 19 to attack the Schneider factory in Le Creusot. While returning to base the following night, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Bretteville-sur-Laize. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt Jack Watson, pilot,
Sgt Gerald Wilfred Rockwood, flight engineer,
Sgt Henry Charles William Nash, navigator,
Sgt William George Brown, wireless operator,
Sgt William John McKay, bomb aimer,
F/Sgt Jack Edwin Lewis, air gunner,
Sgt Jack Sutcliffe, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Leeming at 2159LT on June 19 to attack the Schneider factory in Le Creusot. While returning to base the following night, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed near Caen. Four crew members were killed and three others became PoW.
Crew:
P/O Richard Anthony Symes, pilot,
P/O Douglas Carter Horner, flight engineer, †
P/O James Denholm, navigator, †
F/O Peter Reginald Quance, bomb aimer, †
F/Lt Max Samuels, wireless operator, †
Sgt Harold Allan Brown, air gunner,
F/O Roderick Jerome John Ball, air gunner.

The airplane departed Bournemouth-Hurn Airport at 2250LT on April 17 on an operation to a railway electric station located south of Médizon. It was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Ernes. The pilot was killed, the radio operator evaded and two other crew members became PoW.
Crew:
F/O Roger George Wallis, pilot, †
F/O Anthony Peter Fox Waddington, navigator,
P/O Phillip Whitnall, radio operator,
F/Sgt Edward Hughes, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Tempsford on the evening of April 17 on Operation Lime 9 (Special Operation Executive), heading for a supply dropping area near Moulins, Ille-et-Vilaine. Outbound, it was shot down by the German Flak and crashed in Ussy, killing the entire crew.
Crew:
F/O Tadeusz Ginter, pilot,
Sgt James Henry Aspden, flight engineer,
Sgt Stefan Gadomski,
F/Lt Bogdan Seweryn Lawrenczuk
F/Sgt Jan Kazimierz Mironow,
Sgt Franciszek Ulasiuk, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Tempsford on Operation Director 22/Reporter and Surgeon (Special Operation Executive) with eight crew on board. Passing north of Caen, it was shot down by the German Flak and crashed in Douvres-la-Délivrande. A crew was killed, four became PoW and three evaded.
Crew:
W/O S. Jensen, pilot,
F/O Bolesław Korpowski, flight engineer,
Sgt A. N. Dent,
F/L I. Izycki,
Sgt G. Evans,
Sgt Jan Lesniewicz, wireless operator, †
W/O Leszek Wladysław Zaborowski, air gunner,
W/O L. Urbanski, air gunner.

While engaged in an operation to France, the airplane crashed for unknown reasons in Campigny, some 7 km southwest of Bayeux. All five crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt Henryk Nowakowski, pilot,
Sgt Florian Kornafel, radio operator,
P/O Jan Rysztok, observer,
Sgt Jan Karna, air gunner,
Sgt Henryk Zachel, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Tempsford on a Special Duties Service (secret unrecorded operation). Over North of France, it went out of control and crashed 1,5 km from Vire. Four crew members were killed while the air gunner became PoW.
Crew:
F/Sgt John Owen, pilot, †
Sgt Douglas Thornton, pilot, †
Sgt James Whalley, observer, †
F/Sgt William George Rock, wireless operator,
Sgt Philip Highmore Avery, air gunner.

Crashed on approach to Caen-Carpiquet Airport. All four crew members were killed.
Crew:
Ogefr Albert Geissle, pilot,
Uffz Johann Watermann, radio operator,
Gefr Alex Selikow, air gunner,
Gefr Theodor Weber, air gunner.

Crashed on approach to Caen-Carpiquet Airport. All four crew members were killed.
Crew:
Fw Johann Zengerle, pilot,
Uffz Helmuth Haberkorn, radio operator,
Fw Martin Fischer, mechanic,
Gefr Ernst Hasselhuhn, air gunner.