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The airplane departed RAF Waterbeach in the evening of July 30 on an operation to Cologne. It failed to return to base and was lost without trace, probably after it crashed somewhere in the North Sea. All six crew members were killed.
Crew:
P/O George Norman Bevan, pilot,
Sgt Thomas Ivor Hicks, pilot,
P/O Bernard Castle Curtis, observer,
Sgt William Grenville Herrod, wireless operator,
Sgt Wallace Henry Wyatt, wireless operator,
Sgt Frederick Leonard Molteni, air gunner.

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

Date & Time: Jul 30, 1941

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V6266

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The airplane departed RAF Oulton at 1400LT on an anti-shipping operation. It was shot down by a Me.110 and crashed in the North Sea some 180 km north of Texel. All three crew members were killed.
Crew:
P/O Peter Brown,
Sgt Rowland Haley,
Sgt George Raymond Menish.

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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 30, 1941

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V6439

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The airplane departed RAF Oulton at 1400LT on an anti-shipping operation. It was shot down by a Me.110 and crashed in the North Sea some 180 km north of Texel. All three crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt William Sidney Campbell,
Sgt Robert Gordon McRobert,
Sgt Stanley Richard Bowman Severn.

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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 30, 1941

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V6322

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The airplane departed RAF Oulton at 1400LT on an anti-shipping operation. It was lost without trace and probably crashed somewhere in the North Sea.
Crew:
P/O Peter Gerald Shillitoe, pilot,
Sgt Phiilip James Walder, observer,
P/O Esmond Clive Elder, air gunner.

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

Date & Time: Jul 30, 1941

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R3803

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The airplane departed RAF Bodney at 1243LT on an operation to the Kiel Canal. It was lost without trace and probably crashed somewhere in the North Sea.
Crew:
Sgt Peter Stocks, pilot,
Sgt Geoffrey Goddard Lee, observer,
P/O Eric Sidney Hale, air gunner.

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

Date & Time: Jul 30, 1941

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V6176

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Vickers 416 Wellington IC

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The airplane departed RAF Oulton at 1400LT on a mine laying operation. It was lost without trace and probably crashed somewhere in the North Sea.
Crew:
Sgt Lawrence Harold Gruer, pilot,
Sgt John Mortimer Blundell, observer,
Sgt Derek Godfrey Dennis-Smither, wireless operator.

Crash of a Vickers 416 Wellington IC into the North Sea: 4 killed

Date & Time: Jul 25, 1941 at 0200 LT

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R1369

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The airplane departed RAF Feltwell at 2220LT on July 24 on an operation to Kiel. Flying along the Dutch coast, it crashed in unknown circumstances in the North Sea off the Frisian Islands. Four crew members were killed and two others became PoW.
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Sgt Richard Ellsworth Drake, observer, †
Sgt Frederick Louis Green, pilot, †
Sgt Cyril Duncan Lynch, †
Sgt Harry Ponsonby Lynch, air gunner, †
Sgt Lawrence William Collins,
Sgt M. Dickinson Hennessy.

Crash of a Junkers JU.88A-5 into the North Sea: 4 killed

Date & Time: Jul 22, 1941

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Junkers JU.88

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7T+KL

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Lost without trace, maybe it crashed somewhere in the North Sea.
Crew:
Uffz Hans Markert, pilot,
Ogefr Helmut Buschulte, radio operator,
Uffz Josef Zillinger, observer,
Ogefr Johannes Dach, air gunner.

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

Date & Time: Jul 22, 1941

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L9412

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