Avro 679 Manchester

The airplane was completing a training sortie from RAF Coningsby when it collided with a RAF Hurricane registered V6864 and crashed in Walpole St Andrew, west of King's Lynn. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/Sgt Arthur Carriss Smith, pilot,
F/O Henry Thomas Hill, pilot,
Sgt John Newton, observer,
Sgt Fred Holt, wireless operator,
Sgt Ernest Charles Hutton,
Sgt Francis Edward Martin, wireless operator,
Sgt Jesse Few, air gunner.

While turning finals to land at RAF Waddington, the pilot reported that the Manchester yawed to starboard and though he opened the throttles to full power. Doing so, the bomber struck the ground hard, whereupon it skidded into a lake known as Fiskerton Lake, near RAF Fiskerton, some six miles northeast of RAF Waddington. The airplane was damaged beyond repair and all three crew members escaped uninjured.
Crew:
P/O A. W. Hills,
P/O F. Roper,
P/O S. W. Patterson.

The airplane departed RAF Coningsby at 1320LT on an air sea rescue operation to search for crew reported missing from the previous night operations. The aircraft was last seen around 1600LT and failed to return to base. No trace was ever found.
Crew (97th Squadron):
Sgt Clifford Robert Bronson,
Sgt Amos Richard Albert Dexter,
Sgt Frederick William Manners,
P/O Gordon Harold John Pickering,
F/Lt Charles Peter Dovey Price,
F/Sgt Christopher Stanley,
Sgt Neville Jack Weston.

While on a training flight, the airplane suffered a failure of the port engine. All attempts to feather the airscrew failed and the airplane crash landed near Roxton. All crew members escaped uninjured.
Crew:
P/O A. L. Searby +6.

The airplane was engaged in a training mission, carrying a number of ATC cadets. It crashed for unknown reasons at Hardings Farm, Linwood, two miles south-southeast of Market Rasen. The airplane was destroyed and there were no casualties.
Crew:
S/L K. H. P. Beauchamp +12.

The airplane departed RAF Coningsby at 1822LT on an operation to Bremen. While returning to base the following night, it force landed in a marshland in Friskney following a fuel exhaustion. All seven occupants escaped uninjured.
Crew:
Sgt G. H. Hartley,
Sgt Appleyard,
Sgt J. Canham,
Sgt Dean,
Sgt Baker,
Sgt Mayland,
Sgt Gross.

The airplane departed RAF Coningsby at 1830LT to bomb a railway near Bremen. While returning to base the following night, the crew reported technical issues with the wireless equipment. The airplane was lost without trace and is believed to have crash somewhere in the North Sea.
Crew (97th Squadron):
P/O William Gershon Noble, pilot,
F/Sgt Lester Louis Harrison, pilot,
Sgt Arthur Francis George Redwood, observer,
Sgt Nigel Frederick Hunt, wireless operator and air gunner,
Sgt Charles Ceasar Kolar, wireless operator and air gunner,
F/O Lionel Abel John Mills, air gunner,
Sgt Robert Muirhead Colin Worthington, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Waddington in the evening of August 20 on an operation to Bremen. While cruising at night off the British coast, the aircraft went out of control and crashed in unknown circumstances into the sea some 18 miles off Great Yarmouth. The body of P/O MacDonald was found few days later on a beach in France but no trace of the rest of the crew was ever found.
Crew (207th Squadron):
P/O John Charles Lancelot Ruck-Keene, pilot,
P/O George Sinclair MacDonald, copilot,
P/O Howard Stanley Ray, navigator,
F/Sgt John Stewart Cooper, bomb aimer,
Sgt David Donald Taylor, wireless operator and air gunner,
Sgt William Henry Cubbon, mid upper gunner,
Sgt Herbert Charles Gardner, rear gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Waddington on an operation to Cologne. While returning to base the following morning and passing over Belgium, the bomber was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in a pasture in Beverlo. Five crew members were killed and two others became PoW.
Crew (207th Squadron):
P/O Lionel A. Paskell, pilot, †
Sgt Dennis V. Chant, flight engineer, †
F/S Kenneth H. L. Houghton, navigator,
F/S George H. Roberts, †
Sgt Arthur D. Smith, radio officer,
Sgt Cyril D. G. Walter, air gunner, †
Sgt Lewis J. Compton, air gunner. †

The airplane departed RAF Waddington in the evening of October 13 on an operation to Cologne. While returning to base the following morning and passing over Belgium, it was shot down by a Me.110 and crashed in a field located in Horion, southwest of Liege Airport. Five crew members were killed and two others became PoW.
Crew (207th Squadron):
P/O Joseph Unsworth, pilot, †
P/O Howard Bertram Carroll, copilot,
Sgt Gilbert Thomas Cox, radio operator,
P/O William E. Simpson, observer, †
F/S Ernest Moulding, wireless operator, †
Sgt Alexander F. Dickson, air gunner, †
P/O Frank Mason, air gunner. †