Thetford

The crew was engaged in a bombing mission to Frankfurt, Germany. En route, while trying to get into a formation with other aircraft at an altitude of 14,000 feet, the Liberator Bomber hit a Consolidated B-24J-60-CO Liberator of the USAAF registered 42-100005 and carrying a crew of 11. Both aircraft went out of control, dove into the ground and crashed in an open field located between the villages of Gissing and Tivetshall, south of the RAF Tibenham, Norfolk. All 23 crewmen aboard both aircraft were killed.

The crew was engaged in a bombing mission to Frankfurt, Germany. En route, while trying to get into a formation with other aircraft at an altitude of 14,000 feet, the Liberator Bomber hit a Consolidated B-24H-1-FO Liberator of the USAAF registered 42-7669 and carrying a crew of 14. Both aircraft went out of control, dove into the ground and crashed in an open field located between the villages of Gissing and Tivetshall, south of the RAF Tibenham, Norfolk. All 23 crewmen aboard both aircraft were killed.

While on a training flight, the airplane suffered a structural failure at 250 feet of the outer section of the starboard wing. It went out of control and crashed in a field at Folly Farm, north of Thetford, bursting into flames. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt Robert Douglas Telling, pilot,
Sgt John Amphlett, observer,
Sgt Thomas Frederick Greenwood, observer,
P/O Harry Lionel Tarbitten, observer,
F/Lt Philip Henry Creswell, navigator,
Sgt Robert Smiles Aitchison, air gunner,
Sgt Thomas George Banks, wireless operator.

The airplane departed RAF Linton-on-Ouse at 1926LT on an operation to Ostend. As the bomber crossed the East Anglia coast near Orford Ness, trouble was experienced with the starboard exactor unit. This was followed by a total engine failure and the crew bailed out, leaving the airplane to crash at 2123LT at Breckles Heath, about 6 miles northeast of Thetford. All five crew members were uninjured.
Crew:
P/O L. J. Pestridge,
P/O Trickett,
Sgt Taylor,
Sgt Wallace,
Sgt Howarth.

The airplane departed RAF Stradishall at 2240LT on September 10 on an operation to Torino. While returning to base the following morning, it force landed in a field near Harling Road Station on the rail line between Thetford and Norwich. All seven crew members escaped uninjured and the airplane was not repaired.
Crew:
P/O Cresswell,
Sgt Rowley-Blake,
Sgt Stewart,
P/O A. Abels,
Sgt Wing,
Sgt Turner,
Sgt Lowe.

The airplane departed RAF Leeming at 2240LT on June 30 on an operation to Duisburg. While returning to base the following night and just after passing over RAF Honington, it was shot down by a German fighter. Both engines caught fire and the bomber crashed one mile northeast of Thetford. Two crew members were killed and two others were rescued.
Crew:
F/Sgt Alan Reid Beveridge, pilot, †
Sgt Graham Aeron Alcock, wireless operator, †
Sgt C. W. Lawson,
Sgt Bassett.

Following a mission over Saint-Omer, the crew was returning to his base at night when the airplane ran out of fuel. Four crew members bailed out and the pilot attempted an emergency landing when the aircraft crashed. The pilot was killed while all four other occupants were found safe.
Crew:
P/O James Cameron Young, pilot,
P/O Gordon,
Sgt Little,
AC2 Gale,
LAC Lewis,
AC1 Stock.