Royal Air Force - RAF

The crew was completing a local training flight at RAF Upwood. On final approach in gusty winds, the pilot-in-command lost control of the airplane that crashed short of runway. All three crew members were killed.
Crew:
P/O Charles Herman Woodworth, pilot,
F/Sgt Matthew Thompson, observer,
Sgt Robert Barr, wireless operator.

While on a training sortie, the bomber caught fire in flight and the starboard engine eventually fell away from its mountings. Still burning, the airplane crash landed between May Day Farm and High Lodge near Brandon. Four crew members were injured.
Crew:
S/L W. I. C. Inness,
Sgt B. Patrick,
P/O R. Peel,
Sgt G. D. Poff,
Sgt D. S. D. Welch.

The airplane departed RAF Bicester on a local training exercise with four crew members on board. Almost immediately after takeoff, the airplane went out of control and crashed near the airfield. All four crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt Victor Horace Langrish, pilot,
F/O Douglas Hickling Ivens, observer,
P/O Eric Lionel Victor Stanley, observer,
Sgt Allan Edward Bailey, wireless operator.

The airplane departed RAF Harwell on a cross-country night training exercise. While cruising southeast of Northampton at an altitude of 800-1,000 feet, the airplane collided with a RAF De Havilland DH.82 registered N6968 and carrying a crew of two. Following the collision, both airplanes dove into the ground and crashed between Denton and Paddington. Both aircrafts were destroyed and all 10 occupants were killed.
Crew:
F/O Charles Edward Beloe, pilot,
Sgt Harry Wright, pilot,
Sgt Thomas Alexander Nesbitt, pilot,
Sgt Herbert Samuel Loader, observer,
Sgt Arthur Gerald Johnston, wireless operator,
Sgt Derek Julius Marcus, wireless operator,
Sgt James Henry Mattingly, wireless operator,
Sgt Sydney George Parrott, wireless operator.

The crew was completing a local training sortie at RAF Bodney when the airplane crashed for unknown reasons upon landing. Both crew members were injured.
Crew:
P/O F. W. Wilson,
P/O E. Forbes.

The pilot departed RAF Cranfield on a night solo training flight. On approach to the airbase, the artificial horizon failed. The pilot lost control of the airplane that crashed in Beckering Park, about 9 km southeast of the airfield. The pilot was killed.
Crew:
Sgt Douglas Walter Raley, pilot.

The airplane crashed in unknown circumstances in Camas. At least one crew member was killed.
Crew:
Harry O'Neal.

The airplane departed RAF Luqa on an anti-shipping operation. Over the Strait of Messina, it was shot down by an Italian fighter and crashed into the sea. Two crew members were killed and a third was rescued and became PoW.
Crew:
Sgt Robert George Kidby, pilot, †
Sgt Leslie James Burcher, observer, †
Sgt Joseph Edward Hughes, wireless operator and air gunner.

While engaged in a maritime patrol flight, the floatplane went out of control and crashed in unknown circumstances into the sea some 2,5 miles off Carrowmore, near Doonbeg. Nine crew members were killed and two others were injured.
Crew (201st Squadron):
F/Lt James Grant Fleming, pilot,
P/O Wilfred Sefton Emmett, pilot, †
Sgt Eric Willows Jackson, pilot, †
P/O Eric Gerald Marker, observer, †
Sgt Sydney James, wireless operator and air gunner, †
Sgt Maurice Walter Gerald Fox, wireless operator and air gunner, †
Sgt James Cannell Masterton, wireless operator and air gunner,
LAC Frederick Walter Lea, flight engineer, †
LAC Arthur Doncaster, †
LAC Andrew Patrick Walker, †
AC1 Albert Everall Bennett. †

The airplane departed RAF St Eval on an operation to Nantes. It crashed in unknown circumstances into the Bay of Quiberon off Quiberon. All four crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/Lt John Reginald Noble, pilot,
P/O Arthur John Dearden, observer,
Sgt William Robert Furzey, wireless operator,
Sgt John Francis McGee.