Wyton AFB

While completing a local training flight, the pilot mistakenly landed downwind, causing the airplane to overshoot and to crash past the runway end. A crew was injured and two others were unhurt.
Crew:
P/O G. F. Lowes,
P/O P. B. Ashby,
P/O G. H. Seeley.

While taxiing at RAF Wyton, the airplane suffered an undercarriage failure and was damaged beyond repair. There were no casualties.
Crew:
F/L E. V. Best +4.

The airplane departed RAF Wyton in the evening of May 10 on an operation to Berlin. Shortly after midnight, while passing over the Netherlands, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Hoogwoud. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
P/O Peter Reginald Stephenson Bird, pilot,
W/Cdr Herbert Reginald Dale, pilot,
Sgt Stanley Philip Plumb, flight engineer,
P/O Daniel Mclean Campbell, observer,
Sgt Norman Howarth Nuttall, wireless operator,
Sgt Frank Augustus Sidney Smith, wireless operator,
Sgt Eric Russell Lucas, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Wyton in the evening of April 24 on an operation to Kiel. It was abandoned by the crew after he failed to obtain a response from a call asking for landing instructions. The Wellington crashed at Sand Hutton and was destroyed. All six crew members were rescued, among them one was injured.
Crew:
Sgt A. W. I. Jones,
Sgt Brown,
Sgt Barrass,
Sgt Stewart,
Sgt Strang,
Sgt Galloway.

The airplane departed RAF Marham at 1945LT on an operation to Brest. While returning to base the following night, while trying to reach Wyton, it ran out of fuel and was abandoned by the crew. The Wellington crashed at 0315LT just to the north of Clanchwarton Station, two miles west of King's Lynn. All six crew members were uninjured.
Crew:
Sgt Dadd,
Sgt Payne,
Sgt W. S. Adams,
Sgt Forster,
Sgt J. H. Jackson,
Sgt Pearse.

The airplane departed RAF Wyton on an operation to Bremen. Over Germany, it was shot down by the pilot of a German fighter and crashed in Haren. Five crew members were injured and became PoW and a sixth was killed. On April 6, one of the survivors died from injuries sustained.
Crew:
P/O Hargrave McCosh, observer, †
Sgt Thomas Ross McWalter, air gunner, †
Sgt Edward Duncombe,
Sgt Bernard Clinton Kelly,
Sgt Bernard John Moore,
Sgt Robert Mount.

The airplane departed RAF Wyton in the evening on an operation to Sterkrade. While flying over the Netherlands at night, it was shot down by the pilot of a Me.110 and crashed in Barchem. Four crew members were killed and two others were injured.
Crew:
P/O Cyril Bertie Dove, pilot, †
Sgt Paul Mackenzie Smith, pilot, †
P/O J. E. Russell, navigator,
Sgt W. Jessop, wireless operator,
Sgt Grenville Simpson, air gunner, †
Sgt George Fenwick Hurworth, air gunner. †

The airplane departed RAF Wyton at 2135LT on an operation to Hanover. While flying over the Netherlands at night, the bomber was attacked by the pilot of a German fighter. The pilot attempted an emergency landing when the airplane crashed in the IJssel some 15 km west of Kampen. Five crew members were rescued and became PolW while a sixth occupant was killed.
Crew (15th Squadron):
Sgt William Robert Garrioch, pilot,
Sgt William Hansford Jordan, copilot,
Sgt Robert Frederick Beioley, navigator,
Sgt Hardie George Hedge, wireless operator and air gunner,
Sgt Glyndwr Reardon, wireless operator and air gunner, †
Sgt John Hall, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Wyton at 1756LT on an operation to Wilhelmshaven. While returning to base the following night, it crashed in unknown circumstances, probably somewhere in the North Sea. No trace was ever found. All six crew members were killed.
crew:
Sgt Arthur Edwin Jones,
Sgt Eric Gilbert Robertson,
Sgt James Henry Lee,
Sgt Henry Frederick Lander,
Sgt Dudley Roy Cluett Cannell,
Sgt Ernest Frederick Todd.

The airplane was engaged in a local training sortie at RAF Wyton. During takeoff, it failed to clear lighting cables on the airfield boundary and crashed. Two crew members were seriously injured.
Crew:
S/L R. G. C. Arnold,
P/O B. H. Tweedale,
Sgt H. Smith,
Sgt J. T. Darby,
Sgt J. T. Peters.