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The airplane departed RAF Pocklington at 1944LT on an operation to Essen. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere in the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
F/O Robert Keep Durbridge, pilot,
F/Sgt Robert Neville Longergan, pilot,
F/Sgt Francis Campbell Garnett,
F/Sgt James Morley Broddy,
Sgt William Wright,
Sgt George Albert Tilley.

The airplane departed RAF Honington at 0031LT on an operation to Essen. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere in the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
Sgt Joseph Doughty,
P/O Thomas George Hubert Gulliver,
Sgt James Heslop,
Sgt Ewen Ritchie Stirling,
F/O Cyril Douglas Waddingham,
F/Sgt Derek Shergold Drury Welsh.

The airplane departed RAF Marham at 1910LT on an operation to Essen. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere in the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
F/Off Ronald Percy Runagall,
Sgt Herbert John Hickman,
F/O Russell Lloyd George Hosea,
Sgt Sydney William Stevenson,
F/Sgt John Alfred Chamberlain,
P/O John Moore Runner.

The airplane departed RAF Bourn on an operation to Essen. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere in the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
P/O Cyril William Luin,
Sgt Ronald Frank Lawrence,
Sgt Maurice William Fenwick,
F/Sgt Stanley James Brown,
Sgt Leslie Wilbur Calderhead,
Sgt Clwyd Parry.

The airplane departed RAF Honington at 0028LT on an operation to Essen. In unknown circumstances, it crashed in the North Sea. Five crew members were killed and a sixth was rescued 33 hours later by a trawler.
Crew:
Sgt William Henry Bowers, †
Sgt William Leslie Cooke, †
Sgt Robert James Tristem Lovell, †
Sgt Douglas William Peacey, †
P/O Thomas William Warwick Woodford, †
P/O Ralph Pickard Hoult.

The airplane departed Amsterdam-Schiphol Airport on a mine laying operation in the Humber Estuary. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere in the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
Uffz Helmut Günther, pilot,
Ofw Karl Erber, observer,
Uffz Christian Pollok, radio operator,
Uffz Wolfgang Volz, mechanic.

The floatplane named 'Circe' was performing a flight from Indonesia (Jakarta and Cilacap) to Sydney on behalf of Qantas Airways, carrying 18 'refugees', women and children, escaping the war. While in cruising altitude some 400 km south of Cilacap, it was shot down by a Japanese bomber that was performing a maritime patrol flight from Denpasar. Out of control, the Empire Flying Boat crashed into the sea and was not recovered. All 22 occupants were killed.

The airplane departed RAF Leeming at 1823LT on an operation to Kiel. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere in the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
F/Sgt John Alexander Bissett,
Sgt Clifford Francis Darwin,
Sgt William Arthur Ivor Glanville,
Sgt John Harold Jeffries,
Sgt Edward Hopkin Simmons,
Sgt John Joseph Westland,
F/Sgt Ernest Victor Hallam Wieland.

The airplane departed RAF Hemswell at 2309LT on February 25 on an operation to Kiel. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere in the North Sea. Lost without trace.
Crew:
F/O Jan Jablonski, pilot,
P/O Andrzej Koziel, pilot,
F/O Franciszek Fugiel, observer,
Sgt Karol Jozef Drozdzil, wireless operator,
Sgt Edmund Dolata, air gunner,
Sgt Wincenty Bujak, air gunner.

The airplane departed Amsterdam-Schiphol Airport on a mine laying operation in the Humber Estuary. It failed to return to base and is believed to have crashed somewhere in the North Sea. All four crew members were killed.
Crew:
Lt Josef Scharnbacher, pilot,
Uffz Sylvester Mischalla, observer,
Uffz Bruno Przybilla, radio operator,
Uffz Hans Kappenberg, mechanic.