Handley Page H.P.52 Hampden

While returning to RAF Scampton following a bombing mission over Germany, the twin engine airplane crashed in unknown circumstances near Frinton-on-Sea. All four crew members were killed.
Crew:
P/O Oliver Harry Launders, pilot,
Sgt Basil Kinton, observer,
Sgt Cyril Richard Hallett, observer,
Sgt Leonard Howard, wireless operator and air gunner.

The pilot was completing a local solo training flight at RAF Finningley. Following a night landing at high speed, the airplane overshot and crashed through some tented accommodation. The pilot was uninjured but three soldiers who were in one of the tents were killed and two others were injured.
Crew:
P/O George Alfred Campfield Potts, pilot.
Ground victims:
AC2 Patrick Joseph Curry, †
AC2 Granville John Higgs, †
AC2 Matthew Cook, †
AC2 F. Burrow,
Cpl W. Dobson.

The airplane departed RAF Hemswell on a bombing mission over Kiel. While approaching the target, it was shot down by the German Flak and crashed. All four crew members were killed.
Crew:
P/O Jack Humphrey Gilling, pilot,
F/O Eric Bell Lancaster, pilot,
Sgt Andrew Isaac John Nicol, wireless operator and air gunner,
Sgt Percy Fallows Bailey, wireless operator and air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Waddington on a mine laying mission. It crashed into the North Sea, maybe off the Danish coast. No trace of the aircraft nor the crew was found.
Crew:
P/O Desmond Arthur Todd, pilot,
Sgt Arthur Baird, observer,
F/Lt William Sharman Bull, air gunner,
Sgt Eric Thomas Apperson, wireless operator.

The airplane departed RAF Scampton on a bombing mission over Kiel. While approaching the target, it was shot down by the German Flak and crashed in the Kiel Dockyard. All four crew members were killed.
Crew:
P/O Douglas Redmayne, pilot,
Sgt Cyril Lee,
Sgt Owen Sandford Gander, wireless operator and air gunner,
Sgt George Elliot Little, air gunner.

The airplane was shot down by the German Flak and crashed near Schipluiden, south of Delft. All four crew members were killed.
Crew:
P/O Alfred George Pascoe, pilot,
P/O Alexander Campbell Ennis, navigator,
Sgt Frederick Pursglove, wireless operator and air gunner,
Sgt James Walter Greig, wireless operator and air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Hemswell on operation over Germany. It was shot down by the German Flak and crashed off Spieka. Two crew members were killed and two others became PoW.
Crew:
F/O George Michael Wyatt, pilot, †
P/O Lloyd Stanley Adams,
Sgt Harold Gordon Hill,
Sgt Ralph Burnett, wireless operator and air gunner. †

The airplane departed RAF Hemswell on mine laying operation in the Bay of Kiel. Approaching the target, it was shot down by the German Flak and crashed into the Bay of Kiel. A crew member was killed and three others became PoW.
Crew:
P/O Sydney Burtenshaw Morley,
P/O Norman Ernest Hore,
Sgt Benjamin Duncan McPherson,
Sgt William Flight Anderson, radio operator,

The airplane departed RAF Waddington at 2215LT on June 26 on a bombing mission over Hanover. While cruising at night, the crew sent a brief message saying 'going down' then crashed near Noordwijk. An earlier coded w/t signal indicated the aircraft was flying on one engine. All four crew members were killed.
Crew:
W/Cdr Norman David Crockart, pilot,
F/Sgt William Thomas Joseph Southey,
Sgt Allen John Dennis Ingram, observer,
Sgt Edward Howard MacKenzie Turner.

The airplane departed RAF Scampton on Gardening operation. It was shot down by the German Flak and crashed in the Kiel Canal, in the region of Rendsburg. Two crew members were killed and two others became PoW.
Crew:
Sgt William Alfred Spickett, pilot, †
F/Lt Basil Alexander Mitchell,
P/O Laurence Reavell-Carter,
Sgt Ronald Leslie James, Dutton, wireless operator and air gunner. †