Royal Air Force - RAF

Then airplane departed RAF Thruxton at 0433LT to lay a smoke screen east of Dieppe where Canadian forces were landing. It was hot by the German Flak over the target area and later crashed upon landing at RAF Middle Wallop. All three crew members escaped unhurt.
Crew:
Sgt R. Parsons,
Sgt A. Law,
Sgt J. B. Wicks.

The airplane departed RAF Attlebridge at 0655LT to support the Canadian forces landings at Dieppe. Approaching the French coast, it crashed in unknown circumstances into the sea. Three crew members were killed and a fourth was rescued.
Crew:
W/O Carl Adrian Beach, †
Sgt Dennis Findley James Hinde, †
F/Sgt Peter Stanley Woolston, †
Sgt J. L. Senour.

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 crew departed Nakuru Airfield for a local training exercise. Shortly after takeoff, the airplane collided with a second RAF Blenheim registered V6327 and crashed. All three crew members were killed, among the two SAAF staff. The fate of the second airplane remains unknown.
Crew:
P/O George William Percival, pilot,
Sgt J. A. Carroll, mechanic,
Sgt D. Mulligan, mechanic.

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 crashed for unknown reasons into the sea some 5 km southwest of Abbey Head. All five crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt Brian Lundius Garlick,
Lac Donald Peter Alan Hunt,
Cpl Robert Edwin Springer,
Lac William Richard James Stubbs,
Lac Robert John Wright.

The airplane was returning to base following an air firing exercise when, from an altitude of 1,000 feet, it entered a spin and crashed near Thirsk. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/Sgt John Gillies, pilot,
Sgt John Adrian Rolt Triscott, flight engineer,
Sgt Arthur Collins, observer,
F/Sgt John Henry Folliott Sydes, bomb aimer,
Sgt William Charles Bacon, wireless operator,
Sgt Stanley Downing, wireless operator,
F/Sgt Charles Campbell Lee, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Lakenheath at 2215LT on August 17 on an operation to Osnabrück. It was badly shot about by a night-fighter and from the Dutch coast until the crash at 0430LT south of Southery, the Stirling was reduced to power from two engines only. All seven crew members escaped unhurt.
Crew:
Sgt D. A. Baker,
Sgt J. B. Downing,
Sgt F. J. Berthelsen,
Sgt S. E. Robinson,
Sgt H. Williams,
F/Sgt V. S. Wood,
Sgt T. J. Jenkins.