Royal Air Force - RAF

The crew departed Belfast-Nutts Corner Airport on an anti-submarine operation. Following a normal takeoff roll at night, the airplane lifted off but encountered difficulties to gain sufficient height. It clipped a radio mast located past the runway end, lost its tail and crashed in a field, bursting into flames. Three crew members were killed and six others were injured. Two days later, one of the survivors died from injuries sustained.
Crew:
F/O B. S. Bannister, pilot,
Sgt W. J. Wilson, copilot,
P/O William Morton Densham, observer, †
F/O H. Wakefield, navigator,
Sgt Page Welford, flight engineer, †
P/O Phillip George Fuller, wireless operator, †
Sgt Albert Alfred Middleton, wireless operator, †
Sgt H. Mines, wireless operator,
Sgt J. F. Waite, wireless operator.

The crew departed RAF Breighton at 1920LT on a night cross country exercise. After passing over Peterborough, Harwell, Pershore and Sywell, the airplane was returning to base but flew off track. Descending over rising terrain in limited visibility, the airplane impacted a cottage and crashed in the wood of Molly Carr located about 3 km southeast of Huddersfield. All six crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt James Henry Ware, pilot,
Sgt Robert Litchfield Tresidder, copilot,
Sgt William Leonard Ashplant, observer,
Sgt Cyril Caradoe Davies, wireless operator,
Sgt Frederick Dutton, wireless operator,
Sgt Cyril Raymond Dickeson, air gunner.

Shortly after takeoff from RAF North Coates, while climbing, the airplane went out of control and crashed. All four crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/Sgt Arthur William Goulding, pilot,
F/Sgt John Clarke Harris, observer,
Sgt William John Thomas Flagg, wireless operator,
Sgt Raymond George Edward Whale, wireless operator.

The crew was completing a training mission when he was forced to attempt an emergency landing for unknown reasons. The airplane crash landed near Empingham and was destroyed. All three crew members were injured.
Crew:
Sgt H. Thorpe,
AC1 F. Hayton,
P/O R. P. Worthy.

The airplane departed RAF Leeming at 1800LT on February 15 on an operation to Saint-Nazaire. Following an uneventful mission, the crew was returning to base when the airplane ran out of fuel. In poor weather conditions, the crew bailed out and abandoned the airplane that dove into the ground and crashed near Keld. All seven crew members were uninjured.
Crew (10th Squadron):
F/Sgt Eos Clwydfryn Lloyd, pilot,
P/O Laurence David Hillier, pilot
Sgt James Woods Thain, flight engineer,
Sgt F. P. Mapes, navigator,
F/Sgt William Norman Guertin, wireless operator and air gunner,
Sgt Mathias, wireless operator and air gunner,
Sgt R. L. Gifford, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Woolfox Lodge at 1910LT on a mine laying operation. Approaching the Dutch coast, it was shot down by the German Flak and crashed into the sea off Terschelling. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt Frederick Stanley Partridge, pilot,
F/Sgt Peter Henry George Webster, pilot,
F/Sgt Kenneth Ashurst, navigator,
F/Sgt Anthony Lionel Ely Johnston, flight engineer,
F/Sgt Wendell Wilburn Fairbrother, wireless operator,
Sgt Arthur George Edward Pearce, air gunner,
Sgt Gordon Frederick George Rackstraw, air gunner.

The crew departed RAF Bodney on a training exercise. While flying at cruising speed at night, the airplane impacted the ground and crashed north of Swaffham. All three crew members were killed.
Crew:
P/O Kenneth Hulbert Bottrill, pilot,
Sgt John Milroy Ambler, observer,
Sgt John Morton Roberts, wireless operator.

The airplane departed RAF Leeming in the evening of February 15 on an operation to Saint-Nazaire. While returning to base, the airplane suffered an engine failure. Unable to maintain height, it crashed near Sherbourne, about three miles southwest of Warwick. Four crew members were killed and a fifth parachuted to safety.
Crew:
F/Sgt William Paterson Connell, pilot, †
P/O Edwin Morris Hooper, observer, †
F/Sgt John Winslow Alexander Giffin, wireless operator, †
Sgt Peter Harding Roan, wireless operator, †
P/O J. Spalding.

The airplane departed RAF Leeming in the evening of February 15 on an operation to Saint-Nazaire. While returning to base the following night, the pilot attempted an emergency landing at RAF Colerne where the airplane crashed on approach in unclear circumstances. All five crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt George Albert Anson, pilot,
F/Sgt George Ronald Millar, pilot,
Sgt Reginald Andrew Kemp, observer,
Sgt Colin David Evander Campbell, wireless operator,
Sgt Walter Powell, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Scampton on a mine laying operation. It failed to return from operation and is believed to have crashed in the Waddenzee. Lost without trace.
Crew:
F/O Gordon Ralph Jenkins, pilot,
P/O James Thomas Bartle Clough, navigator,
Sgt John Arthur Woodroffe, wireless operator,
Sgt John Anthony Steele, air gunner.