Flight

The airplane departed RAF Hemswell at 1904LT on September 23 to lay mines in the French waters off Lorient. The airplane failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the Atlantic Ocean. Lost without trace.
Crew:
Sgt T. Sekowski, pilot,
F/O R. Rodzynkiewicz, navigator,
F/O L. Ostaszewski, observer,
Sgt A. Prucheniewicz, wireless operator,
Sgt Antoni Ostrowski, air gunner.

The twin engine airplane was engaged in a training exercise wit a crew of four on board. In unknown circumstances, it collided with a second USAAF AT-11 Kansan registered 41-27620 also carrying a crew of four. Both airplanes dove into the ground and crashed some 15 km southeast of Florence. All eight crew members were killed.
Crew:
2nd Lt Robert T. Ross,
2nd Lt William B. Shea
Avc Robert Edward Cote,
Avc John H. Cwik.

The twin engine airplane was engaged in a training exercise wit a crew of four on board. In unknown circumstances, it collided with a second USAAF AT-11 Kansan registered 41-27630 also carrying a crew of four. Both airplanes dove into the ground and crashed some 15 km southeast of Florence. All eight crew members were killed.
Crew:
2nd Lt William Paul Owen,
2nd Lt Donald J. Gibson,
Avc Matthew F. Farrell,
Avc Wilbur C. Harter.

The crew departed Honiara-Henderson Airfield to attack Japanese ships cruising off Shortland and Bougainville Islands. While approaching the target area, the airplane named 'Bessie The Jap Basher' was shot down by the pilots of Japanese fighters, crashed into the sea and sank by a depth of 30 metres off Shortland Island. Eight crew members were killed while the captain was rescued and later executed by Japanese soldiers.
Crew (11th BG):
1st Lt Charles E. Norton, pilot,
1st Lt Bruce S. Barker, copilot,
1st Lt Leo M. Eminger, navigator,
Sgt James R. Mathewson, bombardier,
S/Sgt Peter F. Novak, radio operator,
S/Sgt William L. Hotard, air gunner,
S/Sgt Fred S. Croyle, air gunner,
Sgt Bruce W. Osborne, air gunner,
Pfc Edward A. Carroll, air gunner.

The seaplane was en route from Lagos to Poole with intermediate stops in Bathurst and Lisbon. About 90 minutes after its departure from Bathurst, the aircraft crashed in unknown circumstances into the Atlantic Ocean off the Senegalese coast. The crew was unable to send any distress call. Few days after the accident, some debris and six dead bodies were found on the Senegalese coast and it is believed that the airplane apparently crashed some 50 km south of Dakar. All 19 occupants were killed.

The airplane departed RAF Graveley at 1902LT on a mine laying operation. It was shot down by a German fighter and crashed into the North Sea off Friesland, Netherlands. All five crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/Sgt Leslie Arthur Seamark, pilot,
Sgt Richard Lind, navigator,
Sgt Alfred Trewin, wireless operator,
Sgt Nial Thurlow Byrne, air gunner,
Sgt William John Godly, air gunner.

While on an operational sortie, the airplane suffered a failure its left engine and crash landed into the sea off List, Sylt Island. All three crew members were injured, one seriously.
Crew:
Obfw Johann Dirr, pilot,
Uffz Herbert Platzek, radio operator,
Uffz Heinz Bons, flight engineer.

The single engine airplane stalled and crashed in Falmouth. The pilot, sole on board, was rescued.
Crew:
William J. Bell, pilot.

For unknown reasons, the crew attempted an emergency landing in Advance when the airplane crashed in a field. A crew was killed and a second was injured.
Crew:
S/Sgt Melvin R. Woodward.

The airplane departed Dundalk-Logan Field, MD, to be delivered in Omaha, NB. When the pilots encountered rain and severe turbulence near Gary, IN, they realized that they could not continue and searched for a place to land. As they flew over McCool emergency landing field, Portage, IN, the pilot circled the airfield three times at low altitude. Unable to identify the boundaries of the airfield, the plane struck a utility pole, ripped through a fence and plowed a 800 metres swathe through a farmer's corn field before it came to rest. One engine had been torn from the nacelle, the other engine ripped from its mounts, one wing and both landing gears sheared off. The copilot had been thrown out of the airplane in his seat and landed 30 metres away from the wreckage.