Royal Air Force - RAF

The airplane departed RAF West Raynham at 2346LT on an intruder sortie to Reinhold Knacke. North of Venlo, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Schandelo. All three crew members were killed.
Crew:
Sgt Leonard Causley, pilot,
Sgt George Reginald Stone Spencer, observer,
Sgt Lawrence Aubrey Lytton Gray, wireless operator and air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Grimsby at 0039LT on an operation to Duisburg. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
P/O Noel Geoffrey Sprake, pilot,
Sgt Orme Kedgley,
Sgt Roy Albert Mansell,
Sgt Douglas Wallace Moss,
P/O Bertram Noel Ward.

The airplane departed RAF Tempsford on a Special Duties Service (secret unrecorded operation). Over North of France, it went out of control and crashed 1,5 km from Vire. Four crew members were killed while the air gunner became PoW.
Crew:
F/Sgt John Owen, pilot, †
Sgt Douglas Thornton, pilot, †
Sgt James Whalley, observer, †
F/Sgt William George Rock, wireless operator,
Sgt Philip Highmore Avery, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF West Raynham at 2355LT on July 25 on an intruder operation to Leeuwarden. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere into the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
F/Sgt Percy Gartshore Leslie,
F/Sgt Robert Ainslie Smith,
W/O Eugene Edward Warnick.

The airplane departed RAF Ingham on an operation to Duisburg. Over the area of Nijmegen, it was attacked and damaged by a German fighter. The crew was able to return to base where the airplane crashed upon landing and was destroyed. A crew was killed, a second was injured and three others escaped unhurt.
Crew:
Sgt Stanisław Janek, †
Sgt H. Kowalski,
F/O E. Metler,
Sgt I. Konderak,
F/O K. Zakrzewski.

The airplane departed RAF Breighton 0003LT on an operation to Duisburg. Approaching the target area, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Moers, west of Duisburg. All five occupants were killed.
Crew:
F/Lt Clifford Henry Burgess,
P/O David Bruce Mills,
F/Sgt William Harrie Nettle,
Sgt Donald Bagley, wireless operator,
Sgt James Mcpherson Milligan, wireless operator.

The airplane departed RAF Marham at 2357LT on July 25 on an operation to Duisburg. Approaching the target area, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed in Krefeld, southwest of Duisburg. All five crew members were killed.
Crew:
P/O Donald Orlo Felt, pilot,
P/O John Walker Scott, observer,
Sgt Alwyne Robert Bowen, wireless operator,
Sgt Cecil Stanley Weston, air gunner,
Sgt Cyril Wellesley Bourke, air gunner.

The airplane departed RAF Coningsby at 0010LT on an operation to Duisburg. Few minutes after takeoff, it exploded in the air and crashed on mudflats in Butterwick, less than 20 km southeast from the airbase. All seven crew members were killed.
Crew:
F/Sgt Geoffrey Appleyard, pilot,
Sgt Robert Lovie Beaddie, flight engineer,
F/O Ray Branton Smith, bomb aimer,
F/Sgt Montague Darvill, observer,
Sgt James William Grimwade, wireless operator,
Sgt James Douglas Davie, air gunner,
Sgt Leonard Walter Young, air gunner.

The airplane was engaged in an anti-submarine patrol mission over the Mediterranean Sea. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed into the sea somewhere off the Egyptian coast. Lost without trace.
Crew (230th Squadron):
F/O Jack Sedgwick Bentley,
F/O Albert Gordon Boswell Williams,
F/Lt Ephraim Hugh Brown,
F/Lt William A. Chapman,
P/O Eric Ernest Thomas Cattemull,
P/O Kenneth Frederick Harding,
P/O Herbert Reginald Nash,
F/Sgt Leonard Blashill,
F/Sgt Roland Lionel Manley,
Sgt William Bulman,
Sgt Alastair H. MacDonald,
Sgt Amon Riding,
Sgt Eric Sutherland Clutton Williams.

The pilot departed RAF Bicester on a solo training flight consisting of single engine practice without the aid of flaps and glide approaches. While on approach of RAF Croughton, the airplane went out of control and crashed in a field located about 1,5 km northwest of the airbase, bursting into flames. The pilot was killed.
Crew:
Sgt Meredith Edward Tuttle, pilot.