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The airplane departed RAF Chedburgh at 1819LT on an operation to Hamburg. Passing south of Bremen, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Leeste. Six crew members were killed and one became PoW.
Crew:
P/O Charles William Valentine Pepper, pilot, †
Sgt Hugh Morris Felce, flight engineer, †
Sgt Frederick Mangleson, navigator,
Sgt Ronald Sidney Allen, bomb aimer, †
Sgt John Neville Unsworth, wireless operator, †
Sgt Alfred Victor Gordon Cridge, air gunner, †
Sgt John William Rider, air gunner. †

The airplane departed RAF Wickenby at 1858LT on an operation to Hamburg. Approaching the target area, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed west of Stade, some 34 km west of Hamburg. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt Kenneth Rupert William Simmonds, pilot,
Sgt Laurence Burnett, flight engineer,
F/Sgt Ian Victor Heatley, navigator,
F/Sgt Donald Kerr, bomb aimer,
F/Sgt Henry Herbert Brien, wireless operator,
Sgt Roy Victor Malcolm Davenport, air gunner,
F/Sgt Archibald John Marfell, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Elsham Wolds at 1851LT on an operation to Berlin. Passing south of Wilhelmshaven, it was shot down by the German Flak and crashed in Bockhorn, killing the entire crew.
Crew:
F/Lt Gilbert William Stanhope, pilot,
Sgt Robert Frazer, flight engineer,
F/O Harry Clinton Pulley, navigator,
Sgt Philip Smart, bomb aimer,
Sgt Ronald Leslie Hunt, wireless operator,
Sgt Reginald Douglas Foley, air gunner,
Sgt James Dennis Williams, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Chedburgh at 1845LT on an operation to Berlin. West of Hamburg, it was shot down by the German Flak and crashed in Königreich, near Jork. A crew was killed and six others became PoW.
Crew:
F/Sgt Jack Maurice Lyall, pilot,
Sgt Neville George Etherden, flight engineer,
F/O Bryan Frank Robert Hotson, navigator, †
Sgt Denis Butler Scoble, bomb aimer,
Sgt Raymond Herbert Thom, wireless operator,
Sgt James George Jack, air gunner,
Sgt James Eric Powell, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Bassingbourn on an operation to Wilhelmshaven. Over the target area, it was shot down by the German Flak. The engine n°4 caught fire then the airplane went out of control and crashed into the sea. All 10 crew members were killed.
Crew:
Cpt John T. Swais,
1st Lt Harry O. Green,
2nd Lt Ralston E. Bixler,
2nd Lt Cassius Brandenburg,
S/Sgt Robert A. De Barbrie,
S/Sgt Herbert E. Fisher,
S/Sgt Gregg Nesemeier,
S/Sgt Arthur A. Sullivan,
T/Sgt Everett Gause,
T/Sgt Walter E. Gilroy.

An American group of B-24s and B-17s were dispatched to take out the Focke-Wulf aircraft factory in Bremen, Germany. The skies over Bremen were overcast and the bombing run had to be diverted to a secondary target, the submarine pens at Wilhelmshaven. Approaching Oldenburg at an altitude of 8,000 metres, the airplane was shot down by a German fighter, entered an uncontrolled descent and crashed in an open field located 15 km north of Bad Zwischenhahn. Two crew members parachuted to safety while nine other occupants were killed, including Robert Post, reporter for the New York Times. He was part of a group of eight reporters, known as the Legion of the Doomed or the Writing 69th, selected to fly bomber missions with United States Eighth Air Force.
Crew:
Cpt Howard Adams, pilot, †
2nd Lt Stanley McLeod, copilot, †
2nd Lt Wayne Gotke, navigator,
2nd Lt William Hannan, bombardier, †
T/Sgt Robert Vogt, flight engineer, †
S/Sgt Linwood Jones, radio operator, †
S/Sgt Donald Bowie, air gunner, †
S/Sgt James Mifflin, assistant radio operator,
S/Sgt Scott Brewer, air gunner, †
Sgt William Welsh, air gunner. †
Passenger:
Robert Perkins Post, reporter for the New York Times.

The airplane departed RAF Syerston at 1815LT on an operation to Wilhelmshaven. Presumed crashed in the sea close to the target area. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
P/O Edward Roy Markland, pilot,
Sgt Dennis William Penney,
F/Sgt John Bert Frost,
Sgt Maurice Dransfield,
F/O Peter Rodney Myers,
Sgt Robert Sidney Greep,
Sgt Edward Parry, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Bottesford at 1755LT on an operation to Wilhelmshaven. It was shot down by enemy fire but the exact circumstances remains unclear: or it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed into the sea off the Frisian Islands or it was shot down by the German Flak over the target area and crashed into the Bay of Jade off Wilhelmshaven. Lost without trace.
Crew:
Sgt Henry Bookless Vine, pilot,
Sgt Robert Sinden, flight engineer,
Sgt Kenneth Westthorp, navigator,
Sgt John McKee, bomb aimer,
Sgt Derek Arnold Booth, wireless operator,
Sgt Ronald Haslam, air gunner,
Sgt Clifford Wignall, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Langar at 1828LT on an operation to Wilhelmshaven. Approaching the target area from the north, it was shot down by the German Flak and crashed into the sea some 2,5 km northeast of Hooksiel, some 13 km north of Wilhelmshaven. Six crew members were killed and one became PoW.
Crew:
Sgt Norman Clive Beer, pilot, †
Sgt Walter Gordon Gawthorpe, flight engineer,†
P/O Charles Douglas Ernest Burney, navigator,
Sgt Harold John West, bomb aimer, †
Sgt William Harding, wireless operator, †
Sgt James Logan Whyte, air gunner, †
Sgt Joseph Smurthwaite, air gunner. †

The airplane departed RAF Waddington on an operation to Wilhelmshaven. Approaching the target area, it crashed in unknown circumstances in Jever. Four crew members were killed and three others became PoW.
Crew:
F/Sgt Ernest John Davis, pilot, †
Sgt H. W. Fullard,
Sgt James Storey Aird, †
Sgt J. Vaughan,
Sgt J. A. Jones-Ford,
Sgt Ralph William Darlington, †
Sgt Thomas Alfred Berwick, air gunner. †