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The airplane departed RAF Coningsby at 2150LT on an operation to Amsterdam-Schiphol Airport. It crashed in unknown circumstances in the North Sea off the Lincolnshire coast. All four crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt George Edwin Bradley,
Sgt David Charles Cranston,
Sgt Francis Roland Lamin,
Sgt Thomas Leslie Panting.

Crash of a Blackburn B-26 Botha I into the North Sea: 3 killed

Date & Time: Oct 27, 1941

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Blackburn B-26 Botha

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L6264

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Vickers 416 Wellington IC

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7868/11

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1941

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The crew was engaged in a training exercise on behalf of the 10th Air Observers School. The airplane was lost without trace and is believed to have crashed somewhere in the North Sea.
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P/O Mojmir Novak,
P/O Alois Sedlacek,
Sgt L. Mirconzuk.

Crash of a Vickers 416 Wellington IC into the North Sea: 1 killed

Date & Time: Oct 26, 1941

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Z1168

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The airplane departed RAF Feltwell on an operation to Hamburg and crashed in unknown circumstances in the North Sea. A crew was killed and five others became PoW.
Crew:
Sgt Barney Walker Shelnut,
Sgt Harold Bell,
Sgt Stanley James Geddes Isherwood,
Sgt Desmond Joseph Pyman,
P/O Edward Millen Sangster,
Sgt Harold Arthur Dagwell Stanley.

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

Date & Time: Oct 26, 1941

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Bristol 142 Blenheim

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V6421

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Vickers 416 Wellington IC

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The airplane departed RAF Attlebridge at 1410LT on an anti-shipping operation. Approaching the Dutch coast, it was shot down by the German Marine Flak and crashed into the sea. All three crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt Edward Whybrow Andrews,
P/O Arthur Edward Day,
P/O Jack Rollinson.

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Shot down by the German Marine Flak.

Crash of a Vickers 416 Wellington IC into the North Sea: 6 killed

Date & Time: Oct 24, 1941

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X9828

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Handley Page H.P.52 Hampden

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The airplane departed RAF Oakington at 1809LT on an operation to Frankfurt. It was lost without trace and is believed to have crashed somewhere in the North Sea.
Crew:
F/Sgt Arthur John Page, pilot,
F/Lt Gordon Frederick Bundey, pilot,
F/Sgt John Robert France,
Sgt Alfred Charles Hayter,
Sgt William Frank Whittington Lewis,
Sgt Donald Roy Thompson.

Crash of a Handley Page H.P.52 Hampden I into The Channel: 4 killed

Date & Time: Oct 24, 1941

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AE290

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The airplane departed RAF Waddington at 0325LT on an operation to Le Havre. It failed to return to base and was lost without trace, probably it crashed somewhere in The Channel.
Crew:
Sgt Ronald Henry Atkinson,
Sgt Peter Hastings Bell,
Sgt Kenneth Amory Holmes,
Sgt Alexander Turner Laing.

Crash of a Vickers 416 Wellington IC into the Irish Sea: 5 killed

Date & Time: Oct 23, 1941

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While on training mission, the airplane crashed in unknown circumstances in the Irish Sea. All five crew members were killed.
Crew:
P/O Frantisek Dittrich, pilot,
Sgt Karel Hurt,
Sgt Otakar Januj,
Sgt Jaroslav Polednik,
Sgt Jaroslav Rolenc.

Crash of a Vickers 406 Wellington II into The Channel: 6 killed

Date & Time: Oct 22, 1941 at 2100 LT

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Consolidated PBY Catalina

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The airplane departed RAF Pocklington at 1815LT on an operation to Le Havre. Around 2030LT, the crew reported that the mission was completed. It is believed that half an hour later, while returning to base, it crashed in unknown circumstances in The Channel. All six crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt Cyril Roland Hall, pilot,
Sgt Lloyd Eldon Dodge,
F/Sgt Lawrence Herbert Jackson, wireless operator,
Sgt William Leo Newton Johnston,
F/Sgt George Frederick Marr,
Sgt Percy Thomas Walter Walker.

Crash of a Consolidated PBY Catalina into the North Sea: 10 killed

Date & Time: Oct 22, 1941

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AH566

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