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Vickers 416 Wellington IC

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Middleton St George - Middleton St George

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2089

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1941

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The airplane departed RAF Middleton St George at 2219LT on August 8 on an operation to Kiel. Over the target area, it was hit by the German Flak and severely damaged. Unable to make the English coast, the crew ditched the airplane some 78 miles northeast of Blyth. All five crew members were rescued.
Crew:
Sgt J. W. Bell,
Sgt Pindon,
Sgt Buttell,
Sgt R. Boucher,
Sgt Porter.

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Shot down by the German Flak.

Crash of a Vickers 416 Wellington IC into the North Sea: 6 killed

Date & Time: Aug 7, 1941

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X9676

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Vickers 416 Wellington IC

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Hemswell - Hemswell

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The airplane departed RAF Hemswell at 2212LT on August 6 on an operation to Frankfurt. It crashed in unknown circumstances in the North Sea, killing the entire crew.
Crew:
F/Lt Władisław Henryk Cichowski,
F/O Edmund Jura,
F/O S. Jasinski,
F/O T. Chrostowski,
Sgt F. Jezierski
Sgt C. Szczukowski.

Crash of a Vickers 416 Wellington IC into the North Sea: 6 killed

Date & Time: Aug 7, 1941

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X9750

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Vickers 416 Wellington IC

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Stradishall - Stradishall

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The airplane departed RAF Stradishall in the evening of August 6 on an operation to Frankfurt. It failed to return to base and was lost without trace, maybe it crashed somewhere in the North Sea.
Crew:
Sgt Robert Gordon Burnett,
Sgt William John Vincent Crowsley,
P/O Colin Mcdougall Didsbury,
Sgt Norman Evans Mills,
Sgt Edgar James Page,
P/O Gerald Daniel Edward Stack.

Crash of a Vickers 416 Wellington IC into the North Sea: 2 killed

Date & Time: Aug 7, 1941

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R1648

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Feltwell - Feltwell

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The airplane departed RAF Feltwell at 2247LT on August 6 on an operation to Mannheim. It crashed in unknown circumstances in the North Sea off the Dutch coast. Four crew members were rescued and became PoW and two others were killed.
Crew:
Sgt Jack Wilson Bottomley, †
Sgt William Neill Kennedy Mellon, †
Sgt Leopold Ian Adrian Millett,
Sgt Richard Grosvenor Morgan,
Sgt Deryck Polley,
Sgt Clifford Simpson.

Crash of a Bristol 142 Blenheim IV into the North Sea: 3 killed

Date & Time: Aug 7, 1941

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Bristol 142 Blenheim

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L4899

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Handley Page H.P.52 Hampden

MSN:

8914

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1939

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The airplane crashed in unknown circumstances in the North Sea off the Dutch coast. All three crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/Sgt Ronald Louvain Burton,
Sgt William Swann Robinson,
P/O Leslie Ward.

Crash of a Handley Page H.P.52 Hampden I into the North Sea: 4 killed

Date & Time: Aug 6, 1941

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AE140

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Handley Page H.P.52 Hampden

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North Luffenham - North Luffenham

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The airplane departed RAF North Luffenham on an operation to Karlsruhe. It failed to return to base and was lost without trace, probably it crashed somewhere in the North Sea.
Crew:
P/O Stuart William Stott Beedie,
Sgt James Roland Cook,
Sgt Harold Edward Fear,
Sgt Frederick Thomas Prest.

Crash of a Handley Page H.P.52 Hampden I into the North Sea: 4 killed

Date & Time: Aug 6, 1941

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AD903

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Vickers 406 Wellington II

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North Luffenham - North Luffenham

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The airplane departed RAF North Luffenham on an operation to Calais. It failed to return to base and was lost without trace, probably it crashed somewhere into the sea.
Crew:
Sgt Ronald Thornton Clark,
Sgt John Henry Howard Cutmore,
Sgt Percy Albert Hammond,
F/Sgt Eric Francis Reeve.

Crash of a Vickers 406 Wellington II into the North Sea: 6 killed

Date & Time: Aug 3, 1941

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W5527

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The airplane departed RAF Pocklington at 2235LT on August 2 on an operation to Hamburg. It was lost without trace, probably it crashed somewhere in the North Sea.
Crew:
P/O Reginald Cox,
P/O John Read Horn,
P/O Andrew Owen Learmonth,
Sgt Henry Bruce McKenzie,
Sgt John Moorby Reed,
F/Sgt Ronald Mason Thomas.

Crash of a Junkers JU.88A-5 into the North Sea: 4 killed

Date & Time: Aug 2, 1941

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Junkers JU.88

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S4+LH

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