Royal Air Force - RAF

The airplane departed RAF Grimsby for a training exercise but climbed too slowly, stalled and crashed just to the southwest of the airfield. All five crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt Cyril Jakins, pilot,
Sgt Collan Michael Anthony Bawden Brett, pilot,
Sgt Norman Borrows, observer,
Sgt Harry Morton Exley, wireless operator,
Sgt K. W. Light.

The crew departed RAF Cranfield on a night training exercise. For unknown reasons, the airplane crashed in a pasture located a mile southeast of Wakerley. Both crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt Colin Tremaine Martyn-Johns, pilot,
Sgt Benjamin Wright, radio operator.

The crew departed Wadi Gazouza Airport on a training exercise. The airplane failed to return and its wreckage was found on December 31 near Erkowit. All three crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt Clive Colin Dunstone,
Sgt John Skinner,
Sgt James Murray Thomson.

The airplane suffered an engine failure and crashed upon takeoff from Abukir Airfield. The pilot, sole on board, was killed.
Crew:
Sgt Peter Frederick Brook, pilot.

The single engine airplane departed RAF Shawbury on a training flight to RAF White Waltham, carrying one instructor and two pilots under training. While taxiing at RAF White Waltham, the airplane collided with a parked lorry and came to rest. All three occupants escaped uninjured and the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.

The airplane departed RAF North Coates to lay mines off the Frisian Islands. Approaching the Dutch coast, it was shot down by the German Flak and crash landed near a farm on Schiermonnikoog Island. All four crew members became PoW.
Crew:
W/O Jack Basil Green,
W/O James McCann,
F/Lt Dominic Page,
F/Lt James McCrae Paxton.

The airplane was completing a training sortie from RAF Coningsby when it collided with a RAF Hurricane registered V6864 and crashed in Walpole St Andrew, west of King's Lynn. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/Sgt Arthur Carriss Smith, pilot,
F/O Henry Thomas Hill, pilot,
Sgt John Newton, observer,
Sgt Fred Holt, wireless operator,
Sgt Ernest Charles Hutton,
Sgt Francis Edward Martin, wireless operator,
Sgt Jesse Few, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF North Coates to lay mines off the Frisian Islands. Approaching the target area, it was shot down by the German Flak and crashed into the sea off Schiermonnikoog Island. All four crew members were killed.
Crew:
P/O Denis Reginald James Harper, pilot,
F/Sgt Ambrose Norman Kennedy, wireless operator,
Sgt William Thomas Large, wireless operator,
Sgt Alexander Percy McGregor, wireless operator.

The pilot, sole on board, departed Bristol-Filton Airport on a ferry flight to RAF St Athan. On final approach, both engines failed. The airplane lost height, clipped trees and crashed. The pilot was injured.
Crew:
P/O Jerzy Drewiecki, pilot.

The airplane departed RAF Marham on a training exercise. It crashed two miles north of March, following a low-flying accident during which the Wellington collided with a line of railway trucks on the March to Spalding line. All nine crew members were killed, among them three members of the ground staff who joined the flight for air experience flying.
Crew:
Sgt George Robert Bruce, pilot,
Sgt Percival Miles Taylor, pilot,
Sgt Henry Norman O'Shea, observer,
Sgt Percy George Crosbie, wireless operator,
Sgt William Myrddin Evans, wireless operator,
Sgt Ernest Alfred Lawrence, air gunner,
Cpl James Crosby Fox,
Sgt Jack Dix,
AC2 Gordon Sydney Wakefield.