Norfolk

The airplane departed RAF Downham Market at 0025LT on an operation to Bochum. After returning to base the following morning, it swung on touch down, veered off runway and collided with the Watch Office. All seven crew members escaped unhurt but two crew from another Stirling that just landed were killed as the bomber careered out of control.
Crew:
Sgt W. C. Carney, pilot,
Sgt B. Garland,
Sgt I. A. Jordan,
Sgt A. R. Taylor,
Sgt A. G. Ives,
Sgt L. W. J. Durrant,
Sgt W. Stewart, air gunner.
Those killed were:
Sgt A. R. Denzey,
Sgt H. Lancaster.

The airplane departed RAF Grimsby at 0008LT on an operation to Bochum. It was hit by the German Flak near Cologne and returned to England where it crash landed while on approach to RAF Coltishall. All seven crew members were rescued, among them one was injured.
Crew:
W/Cdr R. V. McIntyre, pilot,
Sgt S. P. George,
P/O H. N. Petts,
Sgt G. M. Haylett,
F/Sgt J. D. W. Renno,
Sgt W. L. Fuller,
Sgt R. H. Crystal, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Pocklington at 2354LT on May 13 on an operation to Bochum. While returning to base the following night, it was hit by a German fighter near the Dutch coast. Approaching the English coast, the pilot was forced to ditch the airplane into the North Sea some 34 km east of Great Yarmouth. All seven crew members were rescued.
Crew:
F/Sgt A. McA. Sargent, pilot,
Sgt C. R. Webb, flight engineer,
Sgt Arnold Campbell, navigator,
F/O James Rudolf Bullock, bomb aimer,
Sgt M. Galloway, wireless operator,
Sgt Hugh Donald Newbery, air gunner,
Sgt James Colin Smith, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Grafton Underwood on an operation to Saint-Omer. The crew had been warned about the possibility of being attacked while taking off or landing. Consequently, the machine guns were charged. When the pilot banked the aircraft during the Group assembly, the right waist gun discharged about 50 rounds resulting in the aircraft's right horizontal stabilizer being shot off and cutting the control cable to the right aileron. The tail gunner and a waist gunner had been wounded by this action. The damage was so severe, the aircraft was very difficult to fly but was brought back over base where six crew bailed out. The pilots then took the aircraft towards the coast where the bombs and armament were jettisoned over The Wash, then turning back over land so that the bombardier and navigator could bail out safely near King's Lynn. Next, the pilot and copilot took their crippled plane back out to sea to ditch it away from built-up areas. They both bailed out somewhere off Blakeney, Norfolk. The copilot was picked up by an RAF rescue launch. The pilot had been in the freezing North Sea for some time before the Sheringham Lifeboat found him, unconscious. He did not survive.
Crew:
Cpt Derrol W. Rogers, pilot +9.

While on a training exercise, the airplane landed at Foulsham Airfield with a flat port tyre. After touchdown, it went out of control and veered off runway before coming to rest. The crew escaped unhurt and the airplane was damaged beyond repair.
Crew:
F/O C. J. F. M. Pike, pilot +3.

The airplane departed RAF Methwold at 1643LT on operation Ramrod 16 consisting to attack an electricity power station located on the northern outskirts of Amsterdam. After being badly shot about by a German fighter, the crew managed to return to base but the airplane was damaged beyond repair. All four crew members were uninjured.
Crew:
F/Lt A. V. Duffill, pilot,
F/O F. J. Starkie,
Sgt A. Turnbull,
Sgt L. H. Neill.

The airplane departed RAF Linton-on-Ouse at 2352LT on April 30 on an operation to Essen. It was hit by the German Flak and on regaining the East Anglia coast, it crashed while attempting an emergency landing at RAF Docking. Five crew members were killed and two others were injured.
Crew:
F/Sgt James Chadd Rudd, pilot, †
Sgt R. Davies, flight engineer,
Sgt Ronald James Pike, navigator,†
Sgt Ernest John Wilson, navigator, †
Sgt Herbert Mason, wireless operator, †
Sgt William Oldroyd, air gunner, †
Sgt J. Rashbrook, air gunner.

The crew was performing a local training flight out from RAF Attlebridge. While flying at low altitude in the vicinity of the airbase, the twin engine airplane collided with power cables and crashed in a field located in Swannington, about 5 km northeast of the airfield. A crew was killed.
Crew:
F/O Roger Hubert Powell, instructor pilot +1.

The airplane departed RAF Methwold at 1600LT on an operation to Haarlem but was recalled. On touch down, the left undercarriage oleo collapsed and the airplane was damaged beyond repair. All four crew members escaped unhurt.
Crew:
Sgt J. W. Lowe, pilot,
Sgt H. W. Toombs,
Sgt J. C. Lynass,
Sgt A. E. Downs.

The crew was engaged in a local training exercise at RAF Foulsham. Almost immediately after takeoff, the airplane stalled and crashed, bursting into flames. All four crew members escaped with various injuries.
Crew:
Sgt R. R. Howlett, pilot,
Sgt C. W. Graves,
Sgt V. J. Broome,
Sgt J. Palmerley.