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The airplane departed RAF Elsham Wolds at 2223LT on June 12 on an operation to Bochum. Passing over the Netherlands, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed near Nieuw-Balinge, 9 km northeast of Hoogeveen. Two crew members were killed and five others became PoW.
Crew:
P/O Guy Desmond King, pilot,
F/O Roland Hemingway, flight engineer,
Sgt Francis Norman Jay, observer, †
Sgt George William Backhurst, bomb aimer,
Sgt Sydney King, wireless operator,
F/Lt Guy Benedict Milner, air gunner, †
F/Sgt Barry Matthews Godden, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Melbourne at 2306LT on May 27 on an operation to Essen. It was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Den Hool. Five crew members were killed and two others became PoW.
Crew:
F/O George Rawlinson, pilot, †
Sgt John Howarth, flight engineer, †
Sgt William Kenneth Warren, navigator,
Sgt Stanley Grieve Beattie, bomb aimer, †
Sgt E. Williams, wireless operator,
Sgt Edward Samuel Buck, air gunner, †
Sgt Ernest Bernard Blackbarow, air gunner. †

The airplane departed RAF Binbrook in the evening of May 23 on an operation to Dortmund. Passing over the Netherlands, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Schoonebeek. Six crew members were killed and one became PoW.
Crew:
F/Sgt Beresford Milton Troy Davis, pilot, †
Sgt Eric Rowlands, flight engineer, †
F/Sgt Kenneth Douglas Dyce, navigator, †
F/Sgt Clarence Goldthorpe, bomb aimer,
F/Sgt Jack Stanley Biffen, wireless operator, †
F/Sgt Charles Sinclair Wright, air gunner, †
F/Sgt Frederick Wilson Ralph, air gunner. †

The airplane departed RAF Elvington at 2335LT on May 13 on an operation to Bochum. Passing over the Netherlands, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in a forest located northeast of Zweeloo. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/O Dennis Percival Puddephatt, pilot,
Sgt Melvin John Halls Brookes, flight engineer,
Sgt Lawrence William Bolton, navigator,
Sgt John Iorwerth Palmer Morgan, navigator,
Sgt George Samuel Walton, wireless operator,
Sgt Alexander Walker McKillop, air gunner,
Sgt Ronald Alfred Halestrap, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Middleton Saint George at 2357LT on May 13 on an operation to Bochum. Passing over the Netherlands, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Dalen. Four crew members were killed and three others became PoW.
Crew:
F/Sgt Walter Herbert Secretan Buckwell, pilot, †
Sgt Frederick William Walkerdine, flight engineer, †
F/O Russell William Lowry, navigator,
Sgt William Matheson Reid, bomb aimer,
Sgt William James Nathaniel Duggan, wireless operator,
F/Sgt Alfred Eugene Hurteau, air gunner, †
F/Sgt Walter Le Roy Bovaird, air gunner. †

The airplane departed RAF Leconfield at 2233LT on May 4 on an operation to Dortmund. It was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in De Wijk. The air gunner was killed and four other crew members became PoW.
Crew:
Sgt Leonard Francis James, pilot,
Sgt Ronald Ernest Dolby, navigator,
Sgt Reginald Lionel Lutton, bomb aimer,
Sgt John Russell Baxter, wireless operator,
Sgt Francis Graham Latham, air gunner. †

The airplane departed RAF Middleton Saint George at 1834LT on an operation to Hamburg. It was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Odoornerveen, northwest of Emmen. Four crew members were killed and three others became PoW.
Crew:
P/O Jack Douglas Mackenzie, pilot, †
Sgt William Peter Duthie, flight engineer, †
Sgt William Nelson Garnet, navigator,
Sgt Eric Raymond Marquand, bomb aimer,
W/O Raymond Hepton Hill, wireless operator, †
F/Sgt Alexander Henry Milton, air gunner,
W/O Lennox Alwin Gonnett, air gunner. †

The airplane departed RAF Hemswell at 2312LT on July 2 on an operation to Bremen. Over the Netherlands, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Borger. An air gunner was killed while four other crew members became PoW.
Crew:
W/Cdr Maksymilian Longin Brzozowski, pilot,
F/O Stanisław Atenski, observer,
P/O Michał Benoit, wireless operator,
Sgt Stanisław Kedzierski, air gunner, †
Sgt Stanisław Marek Kowalczyk, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Bottesford at 2337LT on June 3 on an operation to Bremen. Over the Netherlands, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Zwiggelte, killing the entire crew.
Crew:
W/O Colin Wathey, pilot,
F/Sgt Laurence John Lea, pilot,
Sgt Russell Roy Alwyn Jones, observer,
F/Sgt Thomas Donald Atkinson, wireless operator,
F/Sgt Grahame Leveson Musitano, wireless operator,
Sgt Colin James Murray Hall, air gunner,
Sgt Stewart Gray Kerr, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Scampton at 0150LT on an operation to Essen. Passing over the Netherlands, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in a canal in Oranje. Five crew members were killed and two others became PoW.
Crew:
F/O Robert Ward Cooper, pilot, †
Sgt James Thomson Heggie Mowat, pilot, †
Sgt Michael John Carlton Cross, observer, †
Sgt Charles Broad, air gunner, †
Sgt George William Dalby, wireless operator, †
Sgt Alfred F. Key,
Sgt George W. Rex.