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Z7282

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The airplane was completing a training sortie when it crashed for unknown reasons in the North Sea at coordinates 54° 53' N 01° 32 E. All three crew members were rescued and taken to Blyth. The airplane sank and was lost.
Crew:
F/Lt M. W. Waddington,
Sgt P. R. Thompson,
Sgt D. Palmer.

Crash of a Bristol 152 Beaufort I into the Bay of Biscay: 4 killed

Date & Time: Jun 18, 1941

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Bristol 152 Beaufort

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L9859

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Vickers 406 Wellington II

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Saint Eval - Saint Eval

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9007

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1940

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The airplane departed RAF St Eval at 2250LT on a gardening operation. It was shot down by a German fighter and crashed into the Bay of Biscay. All four crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt Fred Garbutt,
Sgt Anthony Gosden,
Sgt Edmund Hollinghurst,
Sgt John Dederick Norris.

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Shot down by a German fighter.

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

Date & Time: Jun 17, 1941 at 0312 LT

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W5522

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Pocklington - Pocklington

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The airplane departed RAF Pocklington at 2303LT on June 16 on an operation to Cologne. While returning to base the following night, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in the North Sea, probably between the Dutch coast and the Ordford Ness. All six crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt Jeffcote Louvain Angell,
F/Sgt Lewis Victor Goode,
Sgt Sidney Norman Harvey,
Sgt William Florence MacGregor,
Sgt Robert Tuck Martin,
P/O Geoffrey Hiram Standeford Pullen.

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Shot down by a German fighter.

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

Date & Time: Jun 16, 1941

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AD863

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Coningsby - Coningsby

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The airplane departed RAF Coningsby at 2300LT on June 15 on an operation to Cologne. It was lost without trace, maybe it crashed somewhere in the North Sea. All four crew members were killed.
Crew:
P/O David Gray Dickie,
Sgt Albert Leslie Glaves,
Sgt Edward Ralph Hall,
Sgt Peter Somers.

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

Date & Time: Jun 16, 1941

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V6034

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Watton - Watton

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The airplane departed RAF Watton on an anti-shipping operation. While attacking a German ship, the airplane collided with the mast of the ship and crashed. All three crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/Sgt Evered Arthur Reginald Rex Leavers, pilot,
Sgt Ian Overheu, observer,
Sgt Joseph William Howell Phelps, wireless operator.

Crash of a Bristol 142 Blenheim IV into The Channel: 3 killed

Date & Time: Jun 14, 1941 at 0725 LT

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V6334

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Armstrong Whitworth AW.38 Whitley

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Wattisham - Wattisham

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The airplane departed RAF Wattisham to bomb an airfield in Saint-Omer. It crashed in unknown circumstances into The Channel, killing all three crew members.
Crew:
F/Lt Peter Windram, pilot,
P/O Peter Ronald Greville Howes, observer,
F/Sgt Robert Louis Cox, wireless operator.

Crash of an Armstrong Whitworth AW.38 Whitley V into the North Sea

Date & Time: Jun 13, 1941 at 0135 LT

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Z6721

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Handley Page H.P.52 Hampden

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Leeming - Leeming

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2109

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1941

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The airplane departed RAF Leeming at 2302LT on June 12 on an operation to Schwerte. It turn back at the Dutch coast with the left engine failing. It was eventually ditched in the North Sea at 0135LT. All five crew members were rescued in the early hours.
Crew:
P/O M. Littlewood,
Sgt A. Poupard,
P/O Stevens-Fox,
Sgt Wilkison,
Sgt Harrison.

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Engine failure.

Crash of a Handley Page H.P.52 Hampden I into the North Sea: 1 killed

Date & Time: Jun 13, 1941 at 0030 LT

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AE127

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Waddington - Waddington

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The airplane departed RAF Waddington at 2300LT on June 12 on an operation to Soest. It crashed in unknown circumstances into the North Sea, some 100 km north of Texel. A crew was killed and three others were rescued and became PoW.
Crew:
Sgt John Wardrop, †
Sgt Joseph Edward Hughff,
F/Lt Patrick John Shaw Shaughnessy,
Sgt Charles William Townend.

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

Date & Time: Jun 13, 1941

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Junkers JU.88

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S4+GH

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