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The airplane departed RAF Hemswell on an operation to Kiel. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere in the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
F/O Stefan Zakrzewski, pilot,
Sgt Zbigniew Korzon, pilot,
F/O Prot Jacek Perkowski, observer,
Sgt Edmund Stanisław Kosior, wireless operator,
Sgt Mieczysław Ziajski, wireless operator,
Sgt Eugeniusz Siuda, air gunner.

Crash of a Vickers 417 Wellington III into the North Sea: 6 killed

Date & Time: Mar 12, 1942

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X3588

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Vickers 406 Wellington II

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Feltwell - Feltwell

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The airplane departed RAF Feltwell on an operation to Kiel. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere in the North Sea. Lost without trace.
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S/L Peter James Robert Kitchin, pilot,
P/O William James Parton, pilot,
Sgt Herbert Sidney George Cullen, navigator,
Sgt William Clezy, wireless operator,
Sgt Tony Kevin Carter, air gunner,
Sgt Lloyd Montgomery Chamberlain, air gunner.

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

Date & Time: Mar 10, 1942

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Z8428

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Pocklington - Pocklington

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The airplane departed RAF Pocklington at 1944LT on an operation to Essen. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere in the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
F/O Robert Keep Durbridge, pilot,
F/Sgt Robert Neville Longergan, pilot,
F/Sgt Francis Campbell Garnett,
F/Sgt James Morley Broddy,
Sgt William Wright,
Sgt George Albert Tilley.

Crash of a Vickers 417 Wellington III into the North Sea: 6 killed

Date & Time: Mar 9, 1942 at 0411 LT

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X3641

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The airplane departed RAF Honington at 0031LT on an operation to Essen. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere in the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
Sgt Joseph Doughty,
P/O Thomas George Hubert Gulliver,
Sgt James Heslop,
Sgt Ewen Ritchie Stirling,
F/O Cyril Douglas Waddingham,
F/Sgt Derek Shergold Drury Welsh.

Crash of a Vickers 417 Wellington III into the North Sea: 6 killed

Date & Time: Mar 9, 1942

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X3419

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The airplane departed RAF Marham at 1910LT on an operation to Essen. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere in the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
F/Off Ronald Percy Runagall,
Sgt Herbert John Hickman,
F/O Russell Lloyd George Hosea,
Sgt Sydney William Stevenson,
F/Sgt John Alfred Chamberlain,
P/O John Moore Runner.

Crash of a Vickers 417 Wellington III into the North Sea: 6 killed

Date & Time: Mar 9, 1942

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X3656

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Bourn - Bourn

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The airplane departed RAF Bourn on an operation to Essen. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere in the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
P/O Cyril William Luin,
Sgt Ronald Frank Lawrence,
Sgt Maurice William Fenwick,
F/Sgt Stanley James Brown,
Sgt Leslie Wilbur Calderhead,
Sgt Clwyd Parry.

Crash of a Vickers 417 Wellington III into the North Sea: 5 killed

Date & Time: Mar 9, 1942

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The airplane departed RAF Honington at 0028LT on an operation to Essen. In unknown circumstances, it crashed in the North Sea. Five crew members were killed and a sixth was rescued 33 hours later by a trawler.
Crew:
Sgt William Henry Bowers, †
Sgt William Leslie Cooke, †
Sgt Robert James Tristem Lovell, †
Sgt Douglas William Peacey, †
P/O Thomas William Warwick Woodford, †
P/O Ralph Pickard Hoult.

Crash of a Dornier DO.217E-4 into the North Sea: 4 killed

Date & Time: Feb 28, 1942

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Handley Page H.P.57 Halifax II

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Amsterdam - Amsterdam

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5346

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The airplane departed Amsterdam-Schiphol Airport on a mine laying operation in the Humber Estuary. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere in the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
Uffz Helmut Günther, pilot,
Ofw Karl Erber, observer,
Uffz Christian Pollok, radio operator,
Uffz Wolfgang Volz, mechanic.

Crash of a Handley Page H.P.57 Halifax II into the North Sea: 7 killedc

Date & Time: Feb 27, 1942

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