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The airplane departed RAF Swinderby in the evening of December 11 on a maritime patrol flight. In unknown circumstances, it crashed into the North Sea off the Norwegian coast. Two crew members were killed and two others became PoW.
Crew:
P/O Geoffrey Ian Gunton, pilot,
P/O Thomas Alfred Edgoose, navigator, †
Sgt Douglas Frederick Thomas, wireless operator,
Sgt Arnold Errol Crossley, air gunner. †

The airplane departed RAF Linton-on-Ouse at 1636LT on an operation to Torino. En route, the crew decided to return to base following a fire in the port inner engine. Approaching the coast, the pilot ditched the airplane in the Filey Bay off Bempton. All seven crew members were rescued.
Crew:
P/O M. P. Watson, pilot,
Sgt R. G. Head,
Sgt G. E. Coleman,
Sgt L. McKinnon,
Sgt G. P. Bailey,
Sgt T. R. Galbraith,
Sgt W. Bamford, air gunner.

The airplane crashed in unknown circumstances into the sea off Grosseto. All four crew members were killed.
Crew:
Uffz Eberhard Katsch, pilot,
Uffz Karl Geiselmann, observer,
Gefr Paul Barabasch, radio operator,
Obgfr Albert Minne, air gunner.

The airplane departed Deelen AFB to lay mines in the mouth of the Humber River. It was shot down by a British fighter and crashed into the North Sea some 80 km off Cromer. All four crew members were killed.
Crew:
Oblt Erich Hackel, pilot,
Ofw Hermann Heidt, observer,
Uffz Rudolf Heydenreich, radio operator,
Uffz Rudi Franke, mechanic.

Crashed in unknown circumstances into the sea 5 km off Key Largo. Both crewmen were killed.
Crew:
Pvt Clarence H. Laughlin,
Pvt William R. McCormick.

En route from Taranto to Tripoli, the six engine airplane was shot down by a British fighter and crashed into the Mediterranean Sea, some 180 km north of Misrata. All 13 occupants were killed.

Few minutes after takeoff from Horn Island Airport, while on a transit flight, the twin engine airplane caught fire for unknown reasons. The crew ditched the airplane off Wednesday Island. All eight occupants were rescued.
Crew:
F/Lt Harold Roy Croker, pilot,
P/O Victor Ernest Radford,
Sgt Robert Reginald Planner,
Sgt Robert John Higgens,
Sgt Jeffery Glenarvon Forrester,
Sgt Roy Thomas Ernest Langlands,
Ac1 Malcolm Patrick Quinn,
Ac1 Charles Alan Loughlin.

Just after takeoff from Dartmouth, the seaplane crashed into the sea and was destroyed. All six crew members were killed.
Crew:
P/O Edward Salter Corbett,
F/O John Glenn MacMaster,
F/O Robert Arthur Sharman.
Sgt Fawcett Calvert Dayton,
Sgt Jack Richardson,
Cpl Elmor William Werry.

The crew was completing landing tests off Benghazi when the seaplane crashed in unknown circumstances into the Mediterranean sea, some 24 km offshore. All seven occupants were rescued the next day in a dinghy while the airplane sank and was lost.
Crew:
F/L John Phillip Bartle, pilot,
P/O Charles Farquhar McWilliam, copilot.
Passengers:
F/O Stanley O'Donnell,
Lac Gerald Cheston Allen,
Lac Geoffrey Thomas Richards,
Lac John Douglas Richards,
Ac1 W. J. Milburn.

The airplane departed Accra, GHana, on a transatlantic flight to Belém with intermediate stops in Georgetown (Ascension Island) and Natal. On the leg from Georgetown to Natal, the four engine aircraft crashed into the Atlantic ocean, some 410 km west of the Ascension Island. SAR operations were initiated but eventually suspended after few days as no trace of the aircraft nor the crew was found. The last radio contact with the crew was recorded at 0337LT. The crew was from TWA.