Norfolk

The crew was performing a local training flight at RAF Swanton Morley. During the takeoff roll, the airplane crash landed after the undercarriage were prematurely retracted. All four crew members escaped unhurt.
Crew:
Sgt J. K. Fulton, pilot,
P/O H. M. Wygle,
Sgt R. E. Manser,
Sgt C. G. Kernaghan.

On final approach to RAF Great Massingham, while on a local training exercise, the airplane went out of control and crashed. The pilot, sole on board, was killed.
Crew:
Lt G. A. A. de Gramont, pilot.

The airplane departed RAF Elsham Wolds at 2040LT on April 9 on an operation to Duisburg. While returning to base the following night and flying in the vicinity of Alkmaar, in the Netherlands, it was badly shot about by a German fighter and crash landed near RAF Bodney. An air gunner was killed.
Crew:
F/Lt Kenneth George Bickers, pilot,
Sgt A. E. Fullick, flight engineer,
P/O Cyril John Plummer, navigator,
P/O Stanley Wilfred Peglar, bomb aimer,
Sgt A. G. Holmes, wireless operator,
Sgt G. H. Shaw, air gunner,
Sgt Richard Herbert Howell, air gunner. †

The airplane departed RAF Newmarket at 2130LT on April 8 on an operation to Duisburg. While returning to base the following night, it crashed in unknown circumstances at Valley Farm, Bressingham. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
W/O John Arthur Ernest Walsh, pilot,
Sgt Jack Herbert Worthington, flight engineer,
W/O Bertram Augustus Moffatt, navigator,
Sgt Francis Henry Reddicliffe, navigator,
Sgt John William Scudder, wireless operator,
Sgt Stanley Arthur Curtis, air gunner,
F/Sgt Phillip Gordon Stuart, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Dishforth at 2030LT on April 4 on an operation to Kiel. Approaching the target area, it was badly shot about by a German fighter. While returning to base the following night, following hydraulic problems, the crew ditched the airplane into the sea some 16 km off Cromer. Three crew members were killed and two others were rescued. The airplane sank and was lost.
Crew:
F/O Donald Lloyd Kennedy, pilot, †
F/O Keith Minshull Walley, navigator, †
Sgt Leslie Lester Anderson, bomb aimer,
P/O Dallas Laskey, wireless operator,
F/Sgt Charles Norman Beaton, air gunner. †

The crew departed RAF Marham on a training exercise. While maneuvering over Barton Bendish RLG, the airplane suffered a structural failure, disintegrated in the air and crashed. All nine crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/Lt Douglas Ronald Greenup, pilot,
Ac1 Ronald James Chitty, wireless operator,
F/Sgt Benjamin Campbell Harvey, air gunner,
Sgt Maurice Richard Langdale-Hunt, air gunner,
Sgt Arthur L. Laycock, air gunner,
Sgt Walter Harvey Lowey, air gunner,
Sgt Joseph Macneall, air gunner,
F/O Bruce Neal, air gunner,
F/Sgt Kenneth Mitchell Newland, air gunner.

Following a local solo training flight, the pilot was returning to base when, on final, the banked steeply to avoid a bird strike. Doing so, the airplane descended and collided with tree tops before landing. It was damaged beyond repair.
Crew:
P/O C. P. Cowan, pilot.

The airplane departed RAF Downham Market at 1900LT on March 1st on an operation to Berlin. Over the target area, it encountered heavy Flak and later in the vicinity of Kiel. On regaining the East Anglia coast, it came out of cloud and crashed at 0245LT at Themelthorpe. All seven crew members were injured.
Crew:
F/O G. F. Berridge, pilot,
Sgt K. F. Erne,
Sgt L. A. Oakley,
P/O T. C. Wheelhouse,
P/O C. V. Parsloe,
Sgt A. A. Fitzpatrick,
Sgt J. A. Bolton, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Downham Market at 1815LT but swung violently to starboard. While trying to recover the situation, the undercarriage collapsed and the Stirling was damaged beyond repair. All seven crew members escaped uninjured.
Crew:
P/O E. B. Cozens, pilot,
Sgt G. Mathias,
F/Sgt B. B. Hosick,
Sgt F. W. Hales,
Sgt L. T. Chessel,
Sgt J. A. Pidgen,
Sgt J. Anderson, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Feltwell at 1400LT to attack an armed merchant ship lying in n°8 basin in Dunkirk. Over the target area, it was hit by the German Flak which shattered the perspex in the nose compartment and temporarily blinding S/L Dale and F/O Robson. The crew was able to return to base where the airplane crashed upon landing at 1530LT, wheels retracted. Two crew were injured.
Crew:
S/L I. G. E. Dale, pilot,
F/O H. Robson,
P/O G. W. Forman,
P/O J. M. Quinlan.