The Channel

The airplane departed RAF Binbrook on an operation to Le Havre. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere in The Channel. All six crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt John Walter Aston,
Sgt George Henry Bonner,
P/O Norman Nelson Powell,
P/O Edward Sharman,
Sgt David Thomas Smith,
Sgt Robert Charles Wentworth-Hyde.

The airplane departed RAF Grimsby at 1735LT on an operation to Brest. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere in The Channel. Lost without trace.
Crew:
P/O Arthur Gordon Huggett,
Sgt Cecil Ward Chandos Micklethwaite,
P/O George Kildea Traynor Milne,
F/Lt William St. Clair McNeilly,
Sgt Lloyd Lawson Phillips,
F/Sgt Geoffrey Ernest Probert.

The airplane departed RAF Woolfox Lodge at 1850LT on an operation to Brest. While returning to base in the evening and cruising over The Channel about 80 km south of Plymouth, the crew sent a short mayday message then the airplane crashed into the sea. SAR operations failed to find any trace of the airplane and one body was found few days later on a beach on the Scilly Islands.
Crew (61st Squadron):
F/Lt Harry Charles Shaw Page, pilot,
P/O Denys Lowe Atkinson,
P/O Alan Gladstone Burt,
Sgt Thomas Alfred Evans,
Sgt Leonard William Dann,
F/Sgt Harry Edward Turner,
Sgt Ronald Sidney Jones,
S/L Thomas Noel Challoner Burrough.

The airplane departed Soesterberg AFB on an operation over the Thames Estuary. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere in The Channel. Lost without trace.
Crew:
Oblt Hellmuth Lau, pilot,
Uffz Erich Barthel, observer,
Uffz August Schwiering, radio operator,
Ogfr Ewald Menke, mechanic.

The airplane departed RAF Scampton on a mine laying operation off Brest. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere in The Channel. Lost without trace.
Crew:
P/O Peter Thrale Close,
P/O Thomas Frederick Jacobs,
Sgt William Burns Robertson,
Sgt John Warren.

The airplane departed RAF Leeming at 1102LT on an operation to Brest. Hit by Flak at 1411LT over the target area and moments later was savagely attacked by a Me.109, which killed F/L Roach. At 1431LT, the badly damaged Halifax was ditched some 80 miles south of Lizard Point, Cornwall. Five crew members were rescued.
Crew:
F/Lt Richard John Roach,
F/Sgt L. Whyte,
Sgt E. Allen,
Sgt J. K. Corke,
Sgt G. R. Kent,
Sgt C. Charlton,
Sgt Wood.

The airplane departed RAF St Eval at 2257LT on a maritime patrol flight. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere in The Channel. Lost without trace.
Crew:
S/L Cecil Rhys Davies,
Sgt Arthur George Gooch,
F/Lt Joseph Herbert Higgleton,
Sgt Tom Ford Houldsworth,
Sgt Jack Roberts.

The airplane departed RAF Linton-on-Ouse at 0959LT on an operation to Brest. It was hit by the German Flak over the target and crippled so badly that the crew were obliged to ditch the airplane at 1315LT into the sea some 60 miles off the English coast. All seven crew members were rescued, among them one was injured.
Crew:
F/O R. C. Rivaz,
W/Cdr B. V. Robinson,
Sgt H. R. Larson,
F/O A. Abels,
Sgt N. H. Hood,
Sgt W. H. Mennell,
F/Lt F. E. P. Butonshaw.

The airplane departed RAF Balderton at 0030LT on an operation to Cherbourg. Believed to have crashed somewhere in The Channel. Lost without trace.
Crew:
Sgt Brinley Howells,
Sgt William Oates,
F/Sgt Ralph Lloyd Thompson,
Sgt John Leslie Vaughan.

The airplane departed RAF North Luffenham on an operation to Brest. While returning to base, it is believed that it crashed in The Channel of the Sussex coast. Maybe it was damaged over the target area. All five crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/O Arthur John Benning Monk, pilot,
P/O Christopher Bradley Payne, pilot,
P/O Archibald Locksley Smiley, observer,
P/O John Humphrey Dunn, wireless operator,
Sgt Charles Edward Gailey, wireless operator.