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The airplane was engaged in a sortie to Portsmouth when it was shot down by the pilot of a RAF Hurricane and crashed into The Channel. All five crew members were killed.
Crew:
Lt Peter Wagner, pilot,
Oberfw Werner Bischoff, observer,
Uffz Hans Krause, radio operator,
Uffz Walter Möhring, mechanic,
Hptm Karl-Heinz Behrens, air gunner.

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Shot down by a British fighter.

Crash of a Lockheed L-414 Hudson I into the North Sea: 4 killed

Date & Time: Jul 9, 1940 at 1720 LT

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Lockheed L-414 Hudson

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N7377

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Survey / Patrol / Reconnaissance

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Sumburgh - Sumburgh

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414-1773

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1940

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The twin engine airplane departed Sumburgh on a maritime patrol flight. It was shot down by the pilot of a Me.110 and crashed into the sea off the Shetland Islands. All four crew members were killed.
Crew:
P/O Robert Munro Buchanan, pilot,
P/O Loris Jardine Ernest Ewing, pilot,
Sgt Donald Clifford Sinclair, observer,
Sgt Robert Glenday Ireland, wireless operator and air gunner.

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Shot down by a German fighter.

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

Date & Time: Jul 9, 1940 at 1145 LT

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R3732

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The airplane departed RAF Lossiemouth at 0800LT on a bombing mission over Stavanger. Lost without trace.
Crew:
W/Cdr Leslie Clive Bennett, pilot,
Sgt Albert Thomas Summers, observer,
Sgt Christopher James Burt, wireless operator and air gunner.

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

Date & Time: Jul 9, 1940 at 1015 LT

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R3822

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The airplane departed RAF Lossiemouth on a bombing mission over Stavanger. Lost without trace.
Crew:
P/O John Alistair Heath-Brown, pilot,
Sgt William Arthur Hamlyn, observer,
Sgt Emyr Williams, wireless operator and air gunner.

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

Date & Time: Jul 9, 1940 at 1010 LT

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R3876

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The airplane departed RAF Lossiemouth on a bombing mission over Stavanger. Lost without trace.
Crew:
Sgt John Mathieson Barnet Brown, pilot,
Sgt Claude Donald Stevens, observer,
Sgt James Morton, wireless operator and air gunner.

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

Date & Time: Jul 9, 1940 at 1010 LT

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N3619

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The airplane departed RAF Lossiemouth on a bombing mission over Stavanger. Lost without trace.
Crew:
P/O William Duncan Mackley, pilot,
Sgt William Lloyd Rawson, observer,
Sgt Jack Brereton Dorrington, wireless operator and air gunner.

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

Date & Time: Jul 9, 1940 at 1010 LT

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L8872

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Handley Page H.P.52 Hampden

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The airplane departed RAF Lossiemouth on a bombing mission over Stavanger. Lost without trace.
Crew:
F/LT John David William Murray, pilot,
Sgt Tom Willoughby Hartley, observer,
Sgt Gerald Ernest Duck, wireless operator and air gunner.

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

Date & Time: Jul 4, 1940

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P4352

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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.

Crash of an Avro 652 Anson I into the North Sea: 4 killed

Date & Time: Jun 28, 1940

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Avro 652 Anson

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N5226

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