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The airplane departed Belfast-Aldergrove Airport on a maritime patrol flight (convoy along the north Irish coast). It is believed that it collided in flight with a second RAF Blenheim registered Z5733 and crashed in the Irish Sea. All six crew members in both aircrafts were killed.
Crew:
P/O Arthur Albert Leopold Van Waeyenberghe, pilot,
Sgt James Robert Thompson,
Sgt Denis Ince McWatt.

The airplane departed RAF Oakington at 1843LT on March 2 on an operation to Brest. The following night, it crashed in unknown circumstances in The Channel, killing the entire crew.
Crew:
S/L John Martin Griffith-Jones,
P/O William Ian Dalgliesh,
P/O William Thomas Watkins,
Sgt Roger Hinton,
Sgt Robert Lee McCarthy,
Sgt John Stephen Legge,
LAC Walter John Richards,
Sgt Jack Nicholson Holdsworth.

The airplane departed RAF Dishforth at 1914LT on March 1st on an operation to Cologne. While returning to base the following night, it was lost without trace, maybe after it crashed somewhere in the North Sea. All five crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt Douglas Corbett Beddow,
Sgt Edward Sinclair Cameron Halsall,
Sgt Eric Hughes,
Sgt George Henry Carter,
Sgt Kenneth John Cooper.

The bomber departed RAF Watton at 2040LT on an operation to Rotterdam. It was lost without trace, maybe after it crashed somewhere in the North Sea. All three crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt Allen Warcup,
Sgt Andrew Blair Ferguson,
Sgt Thomas Samuel Courtman.

The airplane departed RAF Dishforth at 1901LT on March 1st on an operation to Cologne. The following night, the crew reported a successful mission and was returning to base when the airplane was lost without trace. It is possible that it crashed somewhere in the North Sea. All five crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt James William Quincey,
P/O Mervyn James David,
Sgt Raymond Clark,
Sgt Roy Bradbury,
Sgt Joseph Gerald Earley.

The airplane departed RAF Dishforth at 1858LT on February 26 on an operation to Cologne. While returning to base the following morning, the crew encountered poor weather conditions with limited visibility due to heavy snow. With failing engines and an unserviceable radio, the captain ordered the crew to bail out. But only two complied before the airplane crashed into the North Sea off the Durham coast. The two crew who bailed out were rescued while three others were killed.
Crew:
Sgt Ian Harrington Fenton, †
Sgt John Anderson Patterson, †
Sgt John Bowes, †
Sgt Clarke,
P/O Carter.

The crew departed RAF Bodney on an operation over the Channel Ports. It was lost without trace, probably after it crashed somewhere into the sea. All three crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt Kenneth Dalton,
Sgt Ronald Henry Thomas,
Sgt Wilfred Lake.

The airplane departed Vitry-en-Artois on an operation to England. It was lost without trace, probably after it crashed somewhere in the North Sea. All five crew members were killed.
Crew:
Ofw H. Michalszik, pilot,
Oblt H. G. Ziegler, observer,
Fw K. Ziegler, radio operator,
Uffz G. Helgert, mechanic,
Uffz H. Menetzke, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Mildenhall at 1825LT on February 21 on an operation to Wilhelmshaven. Lost without trace, probably after it crashed somewhere in the North Sea. All six crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/O Ian Stuart Henderson,
Sgt William Pryce Jinks,
Sgt Fred May,
Sgt James Stewart,
Sgt William Holland MacLeod,
Sgt James Patrick Redmond.

The floatplane departed Oban (Argyll) on a maritime patrol flight over the Atlantic Ocean when it crashed in unknown circumstances off the Irish coast. SAR operations were initiated but eventually abandoned after few days as no trace of the aircraft nor the 13 crew members was found.
Crew (209th Squadron):
F/O Peter Thomas Anderson,
W/C John Edmond Bainbridge,
F/O Edmund Franklin Cragg,
CPL William Charles Davis,
F/S Michael Charles Daniell,
F/S Ronald Leslie Dingle,
P/O Ronald John Fyfe,
Sgt Thomas Owen Lewis,
Sgt James McIntosh McDonald,
LAC Albert Edwards McQuitty,
Sgt Alan Robert Taylor,
Sgt William Ernest Tilley,
F/O Richard Patrick Turner.