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The airplane departed RAF St Eval on a seven-and-a-half hour patrol flight over the Atlantic Ocean. The port engine failed, forcing the crew to ditch the airplane off Brest. All five crew members were able to get into the dinghy and were picked up by a Royal Navy destroyer three days later.
Crew:
Sgt F. Boyd,
Sgt W. G. Wishart,
Sgt T. Parker
Sgt R. F. Crouch
Sgt A. J. Hendry.

For unknown reasons, the airplane crash landed near Crozon, south of Brest. All three crew members became PoW.
Crew:
Sgt Herbert Joseph Mullineaux,
Sgt Anthony George Parnell,
Sgt Arthur Thomas Price.

The airplane departed RAF Thorney Island on an operation to Brest. Approaching the target area, it was shot down by the German Flak and crashed into the sea off Pointe des Espagnols, southwest of Brest. All six crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/O William Desmond Stuart Bow, pilot,
P/O Douglas Murray Stein, pilot,
F/O John Wheatley Goldsmith Potter, observer,
Sgt Leonard Kitchener Newman, wireless operator,
Sgt Harold Malcolm Tookey, wireless operator,
Sgt Douglas Arthur Young, wireless operator.

The airplane departed RAF Skellingthorpe at 1920LT on a mine laying operation off Brest. Approaching the target area from the north, it was shot down by the German Flak and crashed near Locquénolé. All four crew members were killed.
Crew:
P/O Ivor Owen Davies, observer,
P/O Dennis Reginald Fair, pilot,
Sgt Jack Hudson, wireless operator,
Sgt John Henry Pearson, wireless operator.

The airplane departed RAF St Eval on a night patrol mission off Brest. It was shot down by enemy fire and crash landed on the north part of the Ushant Island. All six crew members became PoW.
Crew:
S/L Norman Scott Ferguson,
Sgt James Frederick Barnes,
Sgt Thomas Ratcliffe Calder,
Sgt Bert Clark Gillespie,
Sgt Garfield Stacey Harris,
Sgt Max Fred Sikal.

The airplane was on an operation to Brest when it was shot down by the German Flak and crashed in Plouguerneau. The entire crew was killed.
Crew:
P/O Mehdi Khan, pilot,
Sgt Joseph Denham, observer,
Sgt Robert Stewart Abbey McLarty, wireless operator,
Sgt Robert Willison Turnbull, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Woolfox Lodge at 1845LT on January 31 on an operation to Brest. While returning to base on the following night, the bomber was shot down by the German Flak. A crew member bailed out but his parachute failed to deploy and he was killed. Later, the airplane crash landed in the sea off Morgat and was lost. A second crew member drowned while six others became PoW.
Crew (61st Squadron):
F/Sgt Stephen Joseph MacLean, †
Sgt Geoffrey Herbert Marshall, †
F/Lt Ronald Duncan Fraser,
Sgt Albert William Hadley,
F/Lt William Hugh Hannigan,
Sgt Brian Henderson Mullen,
F/Sgt William Hugh Shorrock,
F/Sgt Thomas William Walsh.

The airplane departed RAF Woolfox Lodge at 1805LT on an operation to Brest. Approaching the target area, it was shot down by the German Flak and crashed in Blérès. Four crew members were killed and three others became PoW.
Crew:
F/O John Robert Bruno Parsons, pilot, †
Sgt William Thomas Holmes, observer, †
Sgt Kenneth William McCaskill, wireless operator, †
Sgt Thomas Arthur Butterworth, air gunner, †
Sgt Robert Victor Griffiths,
Sgt Leonard Wright,
Sgt Reginald Thomas Kindred.

The airplane departed RAF North Luffenham on an operation to Brest. It crashed for unknown reason while approaching the target area, killing the entire crew.
Crew:
W/O Arthur Norman Mowlam, pilot,
Sgt George James Linegar, observer,
Sgt William Black, wireless operator,
Sgt Clarence James Stringer, wireless operator.

The airplane departed RAF Bottesford at 0354LT on an operation to Brest. Approaching the French coast, it was shot down by the German Flak and crashed into the Bay of Douarnenez, off Crozon. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew (207th Squadron):
F/O George Reginald Bayley, pilot,
Sgt Noel Messines Toohill,
Sgt Alexander Gordon Harris,
Sgt Richard Vivian Griffiths,
F/Sgt John Elias Jones,
Sgt Peter Charles Herbert Goldie,
Sgt William Rex Seymour.