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Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress

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Luqa - Luqa

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The crew departed RAF Luqa on an operation off the Kerkennah Islands. While flying some 50 miles south of the Maltese coast, the airplane was shot down by a German fighter and crashed into the sea. All three crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt John Henry Stubbs, pilot,
Sgt Peter Tyas, observer,
Sgt Justyn Stuart Grabham, wireless operator and air gunner.

Probable cause:

Shot down by a German fighter.

Crash of a Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress into the Atlantic Ocean

Date & Time: Feb 7, 1942

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41-2479

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Handley Page H.P.52 Hampden

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2290

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1941

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The airplane departed Parnamirim AFB near Natal on a transatlantic flight to Africa. It suffered a fuel exhaustion and was ditched in the ocean. After several days passed in a dinghy, all crew members were rescued and transferred to Africa.
Crew:
Clyde G. Gillespie.

Probable cause:

Fuel exhaustion.

Crash of a Handley Page H.P.52 Hampden I into the North Sea: 4 killed

Date & Time: Feb 6, 1942 at 1510 LT

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AE308

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Vickers 424 Wellington IV

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Swinderby - Swinderby

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The airplane departed RAF Swinderby at 1205LT on a mine laying operation off the Dutch coast. It was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in the North Sea some 70 km west of Terschelling. All four crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt Bernard Edward Brown, pilot,
Sgt Robert Anthony Billington, navigator,
Sgt David Michael Pickersgill, wireless operator,
Sgt Eric Bland, air gunner.

Probable cause:

Shot down by a German fighter.

Crash of a Vickers 424 Wellington IV into The Channel: 6 killed

Date & Time: Feb 6, 1942

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Z1247

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Grimsby - Grimsby

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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.

Crash of a Lockheed L-414 Hudson V into the North Sea: 4 killed

Date & Time: Feb 6, 1942

Type of aircraft:

Lockheed L-414 Hudson

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Registration:

AM876

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Survey / Patrol / Reconnaissance

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Wick - Wick

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414-2958

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1941

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The twin engine airplane departed Wick Airport at 1133LT on a maritime patrol flight along the Norwegian coast. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere in the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
F/Lt David Frank Walker, pilot,
P/O John Thomas Watterson Kelly, observer,
Sgt Douglas Leonard Bennett, wireless operator,
Sgt Thomas Birtwhistle, air gunner.

Crash of a Junkers JU.88D-1 into the Atlantic Ocean: 4 killed

Date & Time: Feb 6, 1942

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Junkers JU.88

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A6+OH

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Stavanger - Stavanger

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1521

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The airplane departed Stavanger-Sola Airport on an operation over the Atlantic Ocean. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the sea off the Faroe Islands. Lost without trace.
Crew:
Uffz Hubert Braun, pilot,
Oblt Paul Schmidt, observer,
Uffz Rickard Preiss, radio operator,
Uffz Lee Hager, air gunner.

Crash of a Dornier DO.24T-1 into the Atlantic Ocean

Date & Time: Feb 5, 1942

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Dornier DO.24

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KK+VB

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The floatplane crashed for unknown reasons in the Atlantic Ocean, some 900 km west of La Rochelle and sank. All crew members were injured and rescued.

Crash of a Vickers 290 Wellington I into the Mediterranean Sea: 4 killed

Date & Time: Jan 31, 1942

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Vickers 290 Wellington I

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L4374

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The airplane crashed in unknown circumstances into the Mediterranean Sea, some 64 km northwest of Port Said, Egypt. All four crew members were killed. Lost without trace.
Crew:
Sgt Arthur Raymond Batley,
AC1 Herbert Thomas How,
F/Sgt Edmund Ronald Penhale,
LAC Alexander Veith Smith.
Photo: http://www.pewteraircraft.com/RAF/WELLINGTON DWI/Wellington DWI.htm

Probable cause:

It seems that the accident was the consequence of an engine failure in flight.

Crash of an Avro 679 Manchester I into The Channel: 8 killed

Date & Time: Jan 31, 1942

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Avro 679 Manchester

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L7396

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