Bay of Biscay

The airplane departed RAF Grimsby at 1838LT to lay mines off the French coast. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the Bay of Biscay. Lost without trace.
Crew:
P/O Charles Stuart Challoner,
F/O Errol Clifton Crapp,
F/Lt Richard Alexander Curle, pilot,
Sgt Daniel Last Gooch,
Sgt David Adrian Hart,
F/O Harry Riding,
F/Sgt Garnet Walter Durdin, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Waddington in the evening on an operation to Lorient. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed into the Bay of Biscay or maybe The Channel. Lost without trace.
Crew:
F/O John Whitla Millar, pilot,
W/O Harry Gordon Black,
W/O Kenneth Mitchell Perkins,
Sgt Leslie Harold Curtis,
Sgt Robert William Drury,
F/Sgt William Wilson Scrimgeour,
Sgt Alfred Leslie Bond, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Hemswell at 1732LT to lay mines off Lorient. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the Bay of Biscay. Lost without trace.
Crew:
Sgt Wladysław Sowa, pilot,
Sgt Jakub Mierzwa,
F/O Tadeusz Juliusz Malicki,
Sgt Wacław Wydzierzecki,
Sgt Teodor Ogrodnik, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Lyneham on a flight to Gibraltar. It failed to arrive at destination and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the Bay of Biscay, maybe in the Atlantic Ocean. Lost without trace.
Crew:
Sgt Raymond Francis Connor, pilot,
Sgt James Allan,
Sgt Jack Brown,
Sgt Donald John William Buttery,
Sgt Donald Owen Colwell Culshaw,
Sgt Leslie Fox,
F/O William James Hart,
Sgt Joseph Henry Maudson,
Sgt Charles Stubbs,
Sgt Geoffrey Templeton.

The airplane departed RAF Breighton at 1747LT on an operation to Lorient. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the Bay of Biscay. Lost without trace.
Crew:
Sgt Harold Bruce Oliver, pilot,
F/Sgt Walter Edmund Joseph Austin,
F/Sgt Edwin Atholwood Day,
F/Sgt Norman Talbot Mason,
Sgt Stanley James Matthews,
Sgt Gordon Robert Sedger,
Sgt John Robert Brierley, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF East Moor at 1717LT on an operation to Lorient. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the Bay of Biscay. Lost without trace.
Crew:
Sgt Leslie Lindsay Rodgers, pilot,
Sgt Albert George Allen,
Sgt Charles Davies,
Sgt Desmond Lewis,
Sgt George Amos, air gunner.

En route from RAF Portreath to Gibraltar-North Front Airport, while overflying the Bay of Biscay, the aircraft crashed into the sea off the Spanish coast. No trace of the airplane nor the crew was found. Lost without trace.
Crew (271st Squadron):
S/L Godfrey Allison Brown, pilot,
F/Lt Edward Thomson Halley,
P/O Peter Marsh Burton,
F/O Edwin Buckley Bowen,
F/Sgt Richard George Brett,
F/Sgt John Brister,
LAC Philip Cashmore.
Passengers:
Lt Andrew Jervis Hawkins,
Maj Harold John Palmer,
F/O William Milton Henderson,
F/O John Glen McCauley.

The airplane departed RAF Hemswell at 1620LT on an operation to Saint-Nazaire. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the Bay of Biscay. Lost without trace.
Crew:
Sgt L. Werschner, pilot,
P/O S. Lubojemski,
Sgt E. Szlenk,
Sgt J. Gross,
Sgt A. Psuja, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF East Wretham to lay mines off Bayonne, France. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the Bay of Biscay. Lost without trace.
Crew:
Sgt Thomas Gill, pilot,
F/Sgt Douglas Graeme Harrison Johnson, navigator,
Sgt Arnold Morris,
F/Sgt James Lester Watkinson,
Sgt Thomas Clarke, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Kirmington at 1755LT to lay mines in the French coastal waters. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the Bay of Biscay. Lost without trace.
Crew:
F/Sgt John James Perry, pilot,
F/Sgt Hugh Laurence John Mackender, navigator,
Sgt John George Duncan, observer,
Sgt Alan Harvey Clayton, wireless operator,
Sgt Francis Ferguson, air gunner.