Handley Page H.P.52 Hampden

While on a local training sortie, the airplane crash landed in Cantley, near RAF Finningley. The pilot P/O I. H. Grant escaped uninjured.

The airplane departed RAF Waddington to bomb invasion barges in Antwerp. Over the target area, it was shot down by the German Flak and crashed. All four crew members were killed.
Crew:
P/O Richard Gordon Goode, pilot,
Sgt Thomas Valentine Henderson, pilot,
Sgt John Henry Angus, wireless operator,
Sgt James Sugden, air gunner.

The crew departed RAF Pembrey on a local training exercice. In the evening, while flying in the vicinity of the airbase, the airplane suffered an engine failure. The pilot-in-command attempted an emergency landing when the aircraft crashed in the Gwendraeth Marshes, less than two km north of the airfield. All four crew members were killed.
Crew:
P/O Basil York Sowter, pilot,
Sgt David Jack Blair, navigator,
Sgt John Douglas Laing Cooper, wireless operator and air gunner,
Sgt George Warden Brown, wireless operator and air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Hemswell on an operation to Boulogne-sur-Mer. Approaching the French coast, it crashed in unknown circumstances into the sea. All four crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/L Douglas James How, pilot,
Sgt Alec Albert Brooker, pilot,
P/O Tom Hwfa Nixon Lane,
Sgt Richard Cuthbert Dickinson, wireless operator.

The airplane departed RAF Waddington on an operation to Bremerhaven. Approaching the target area, it was shot down by the German Flak and crashed into the sea. All four crew members were killed.
Crew:
P/O Donald Eglington Stewart, pilot,
Sgt Dennis Arthur Joyce, observer,
Sgt William Goodwill, wireless operator,
Sgt George John Hobson, wireless operator.

The airplane departed RAF Waddington to bomb the liners 'Bremen' and 'Europa'. It crashed in unknown circumstances, probably in the target area of Bremerhaven. All four crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/L Thomas Laidlaw Scott Smythe, pilot,
P/O Stanley Cuthbert Wise, pilot,
Sgt William Henry Jones, wireless operator,
F/O Wilfred Francis Ernest Coombes, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Lindholme at 1956LT on an operation to Ostend. Approaching the target, it was shot down by enemy fire and crashed into the sea off Ostend. All four crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/L Robert James Reed,
P/O Peter William Roylance,
Sgt Reginald Halls,
Sgt William Aubrey Johnson.

The airplane departed RAF Waddington on an operation to Calais. It crashed in unknown circumstances into the sea while approaching the target. All four crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/L Douglas John Rogers, pilot,
Sgt Ronald James Brading,
Sgt Herbert George Lacey,
Sgt Bernard Newman Westhorp, wireless operator and air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Lindholme at 2117LT to bomb the Blohm & Voss Shipyards in Hamburg. Approaching the target, it was shot down by the German Flak. All four crew members bailed out at 2359LT and became PoW. The aircraft crashed and was destroyed.
Crew:
S/L Frank Andrew Willan, pilot,
Sgt Kenneth Wynn Wright, navigator,
Sgt Andrew Bertram Cox, wireless operator and air gunner,
Sgt Fred Garland Brook, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Waddington on a mission to Krefeld. It was shot down by the German Flak and crashed in the vicinity of Münster. Two crew members were killed and two others were became PoW.
Crew:
P/O Stanley Richard Taunton,
P/O Henry John Vollmer,
Sgt William Bell, wireless operator, †
Sgt James Bracegirdle, air gunner. †