Consolidated PBY Catalina

On approach to Gibraltar, the floatplane was mistakenly shot down by friendly fire and crashed into the sea. All eight crew members were rescued, among them one was injured.
Crew:
Sgt J. B. Seymour,
F/Lt R. W. Whittome,
P/O R. G. Scott,
Sgt E. W. Mills,
Sgt E. Wharton,
Sgt J. Turnbull,
Cpl R. H. Baird,
Sgt J. F. Paterson.

The floatplane was returning to Oban following an overhaul at Helensburgh. Approaching Oban, the crew encountered marginal weather conditions and decided to delay the landing and to complete a circuit south of the destination. While cruising in clouds, the airplane impacted the slope of Mt Cruach na Seilcheig located on the north side of the Isle of Jura. The wreckage was found the following day. A crew member was found alive while seven other occupants were killed.
Crew:
S/L Patrick Stuart Hutchinson, pilot, †
P/O Edward Ruxton Pinches, pilot, †
Sgt Edwin Cyril Graham, wireless operator, †
Cpl James Calder Kinniard, †
Cpl Tudor Simner-Jones, †
LAC Charles Arthur Kew, †
AC1 Ronald Fearnley, †
AC1 J. Kelly.

The floatplane was shot down by enemy fire and crashed near Cape Vyevnavolok, about 55 km north of Murmansk. Two crew members were killed and three others became PoW.
Crew:
Lt Nikolai Vasilievich Talalikhin, pilot, †
Lt Sergueï Dmitrievitch Bobkov, copilot,
Lt Agubegir Aslamurzaevich Ktsoev, navigator, †
AC2 Philip Davydovich Nakonechny, flight engineer,
Sgt Leonid Fedorovich Ryzhichkov, air gunner.

The floatplane departed Quonset Point NAS on a flight to Iceland. While flying in marginal weather conditions with clouds up to 18,000 feet, the airplane crashed in unknown circumstances into the sea. SAR operations were initiated but the wreckage and the crew were never recovered.
Crew:
Ens Robert C. McKown, pilot,
Ens Joseph C. Haskel, copilot,
AMM1c Wyman Richard Van Liere,
AMM1c Linton Melmus England,
AMM3c Anthony Henry Gazafy,
RM1c Claude Andrew Ashley,
RM3c Lyn Elliott Dunlap.

The floatplane was damaged upon landing off Skerjafjördur in Reykjavik. To prevent the aircraft from sinking, the pilot stranded the aircraft at the beach. It was subsequently written off. There were no injuries among the crew.

The floatplane was shot down by enemy fire and crashed into the Bay of Kola. All six crew members were killed.
Crew:
Cpt Vladimir Ivanovitch Boyko, pilot,
Lt Petr Ilyich Averichev, copilot,
Cpt Fedor Dmitrievich Allenov, navigator,
Lt Nikolay Kuzmich Kolesnikov, radio operator,
Sg Andrey Yakovlevich Ksendzov, mechanic,
Sgt Vasily Yemelyanovich Kuzmenchuk, air gunner.

Crashed in unknown circumstances into the sea off Gibraltar while on a maritime patrol flight. Two crew members were killed and five others were rescued.
Crew:
F/Sgt James Hogarth Adamson, †
F/Lt Greville Vincent Nicholls, †
Sgt A. L. Mahon,
Sgt M. Joy,
Sgt D. H. Button,
LAC N. L. Holmes,
LAC R. C. Griffiths.

The Catalina departed RAF Mount Batten on a maritime patrol flight to Gibraltar. It failed to arrive at destination and was lost without trace, maybe it crashed somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean. All eight crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/Sgt Frederick Arthur Burrows,
F/Lt Noel Kenneth Burton-Chadwick,
LAC John Charles Croome,
LAC John Kenneth Dains,
LAC William Henry Gill,
Cpl Harold Randolph Pye,
F/Lt Alfred William Knox Watson,
P/O Frank Bernard Yard.

The floatplane crashed in unknown circumstances in the Lough Erne, near Gay Island, while on a maritime patrol flight out of Killadeas NAS. All 10 crew members were killed.
Crew:
LAC Henry Atkin Cottam,
Sgt Joseph Leslie Elwell,
P/O Kenneth Bernard Fuller,
Sgt John Sterling Hesk,
F/O Hugh Harold Hirst,
P/O Denis William Hockney,
LAC Leslie Roy Holmes,
F/Sgt William Peebles,
F/Lt Peter Cecil Thomas,
Sgt Henry Ernest Wilson.

The floatplane departed Killadeas NAS in Ireland on a maritime patrol flight with nine crew members on board. It failed to return from operations and probably crashed somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean west of the Irish coast. All nine occupants were killed.
Crew:
Sgt Walter Henry Balch,
W/O Clifford Bond,
F/Lt Henry Francis Dempster Breese,
F/Sgt Leslie Stewart Dilnutt,
Sgt Alexander Vaughan McRae,
AC2 Herbert Vernon Norton,
Sgt Horace Arthur Tann, wireless operator,
F/Sgt Alfred Tizzard, air gunner,
AC1 James Frank Woodward.