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19 Jul 1940 Fairey Battle Mk I L5537 300 (Ziemi Mazowieckiej) Sqn RAF 0 RAF Kingstown, Carlisle, Cumberland sub
19 Jul 1940 Bristol Blenheim Mk IV P6924 101 Sqn RAF 3 North Sea, off Cromer, Norfolk, England w/o
19 Jul 1940 Vickers Wellington Mk 1a P9227 115 Sqn RAF 0 Klein-Henstedt, 10 km NNE of Wildeshausen, Oldenburg, Lower Saxony w/o
19 Jul 1940 Boulton Paul Defiant Mk I L7001 141 Sqn RAF 0 RAF Hawkinge, Folkestone, Kent, England w/o
19 Jul 1940 Boulton Paul Defiant Mk I L6974 141 Sqn RAF 2 English Channel, off Dover, Kent, England w/o
19 Jul 1940 Boulton Paul Defiant Mk I L6983 141 Sqn RAF 1 English Channel, 20 miles south of Folkestone, Kent, England w/o
19 Jul 1940 Boulton Paul Defiant Mk I L6995 141 Sqn RAF 2 English Channel, 20 miles south of Folkestone, Kent, England w/o
19 Jul 1940 California Cub D-1 NC137W Private 1 Near Otay, CA w/o
19 Jul 1940 Boulton Paul Defiant Mk I L7016 141 Sqn RAF 1 English Channel, four miles off Dover. w/o
19 Jul 1940 Boulton Paul Defiant Mk I L7015 141 Sqn RAF 2 English Channel near Dover, Kent, England w/o
19 Jul 1940 Boulton Paul Defiant Mk I L7009 141 Sqn RAF 2 English Channel near Dover, Kent, England w/o
19 Jul 1940 Hawker Hurricane Mk I P3144 32 Sqn RAF 0 Missing mis
20 Jul 1940 Vickers Wellington Mk IC L7795 9 Sqn RAF 6 Eckernförder Bucht bay, Schleswig-Holstein w/o
20 Jul 1940 Hawker Hurricane Mk I P3154 249 (Gold Coast) Sqn RAF 0 Wellburn Hall, Wombleton, Yorkshire, England sub
20 Jul 1940 Hawker Hurricane Mk I P2917 263 (Fellowship of the Bellows) Sqn RAF 1 1½ mile SSW of Tranent, East Lothian w/o
20 Jul 1940 Supermarine Spitfire Mk I R6752 603 (City of Edinburgh) Sqn RAF 0 RAF Turnhouse, Midlothian, Scotland min
20 Jul 1940 Focke-Wulf Fw 200 C-1 Condor 1./KG 40 Luftwaffe 4 North Sea near Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England w/o
20 Jul 1940 Bristol Blenheim Mk IV R3738 110 (Hyderabad) Sqn RAF 2 Haringvliet near the Scheelhoek, Stellendam, Zuid-Holland w/o
20 Jul 1940 Bristol Blenheim Mk IV L8844 17 OTU RAF 0 near Newnham Courtney, mile SSE of Daventry, Northamptonshire, England w/o
20 Jul 1940 Messerschmitt BF 109E-3 << + I./JG 27 Luftwaffe 1 Near Dover w/o
20 Jul 1940 Junkers Ju 88 A-1 6034 4.(F)/Aufkl.Gr.122 Luftwaffe 0 Cockett Wick Farm, St Osyth, near Clacton, Essex, England w/o
20 Jul 1940 Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk V P5007 51 Sqn RAF 4 Dorenthe near Ibbenburen and Saerbeck, Nordrhein-Westfalen w/o
20 Jul 1940 Bristol Blenheim Mk IF L1300 236 Sqn RAF 2 Missing off Cherbourg mis
20 Jul 1940 Handley Page Hampden Mk I L4087 44 Sqn RAF 2 North Sea, Tannis Bay, 400 m off Kandestederne, west of Skagen w/o
20 Jul 1940 Hawker Hurricane Mk 1 N2670 32 Sqn RAF 1 North Foreland, off Ramsgate, Kent, England w/o
20 Jul 1940 Fairey Swordfish Mk 1 K 8864 700 Sqn FAA RN 0 the Mediterranean Sea off Tobruk, Libya, North Africa w/o
21 Jul 1940 Supermarine Spitfire Mk Ia N3184 54 Sqn RAF 0 Sea, 15 miles off Clacton w/o
21 Jul 1940 Hawker Hurricane Mk I P3973 43 (China-British) Sqn RAF 1+1 10 miles south of The Needles, Isle of Wight w/o
21 Jul 1940 Hawker Hurricane Mk I P3767 238 Sqn RAF 0 N of Blandford, Dorset min
21 Jul 1940 Dornier Do 17M 4.(F)/Aufkl.Gr.14 Luftwaffe 0 Nutford Farm, Blandford Forum, Dorset, England w/o
21 Jul 1940 Vickers Wellington Mk Ic R3165 75 (NZ) Sqn RAF 5 Weseke, Borken, Nordrhein-Westfalen w/o
21 Jul 1940 Hawker Hart ????? 1 FTS RAF 1 over RAF Old Sarum, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England w/o
21 Jul 1940 Fairey Swordfish Mk 1 ????? 813 Sqn FAA RN 1 Mediterranean Sea w/o
21 Jul 1940 Aeronca K NC17481 Private 1 Near Newport News, VA w/o
21 Jul 1940 Porterfield CP-40 NC…. Private 1 Near Medford, WI w/o
22 Jul 1940 Bristol Blenheim Mk I L6661 211 Sqn RAF 3 Mediterranean Sea, off coast of Libya w/o
22 Jul 1940 Airspeed Oxford Mk I NZ262 1 SFTS RNZAF 4 Near Kaituna, Canterbury w/o
22 Jul 1940 Bristol Blenheim Mk I L8539 60 Sqn RAF RAF Juhu w/o
22 Jul 1940 Hawker Hurricane Mk I P3895 85 Sqn RAF 1 Near RAF Castle Camps, Cambridgeshire, England w/o
22 Jul 1940 Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk V N1487 78 Sqn RAF 5 near Sprakel (Münster) and Gimbte (Greven), Nordrhein-Westfalen w/o
22 Jul 1940 Sikorsky S-39B NC807W C. Evers 2 Vineyard Haven, MA w/o
22 Jul 1940 De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth G-ADPF 7 EFTS RAF 0 Braunstone, Blaby, Leicestershire w/o
22 Jul 1940 Curtiss Robin J-1 NC13H Private 0 Lake Quannapowitt, MA w/o
23 Jul 1940 Vickers Wellesley Mk 1 L2661 223 Sqn RAF Over Massawa w/o
23 Jul 1940 Supermarine Spitfire Mk I K9899 602 (City of Glasgow) Sqn RAF 0 RAF Drem, East Lothian, Scotland unk
23 Jul 1940 Bristol Blenheim Mk IV L9204 114 (Hong Kong) Sqn RAF 0 nr Nantwich, Cheshire sub
23 Jul 1940 Gloster Gladiator Mk I N5622 247 Sqn RAF 0 RAF Usworth, Sunderland, County Durham, England sub
23 Jul 1940 Miles M.3A Falcon Major VH-AAS Connellan Airways 0 Hatches Creek, NE of Alice Springs, NT w/o
23 Jul 1940 Curtiss P-36A Hawk 38-103 United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) 1 Hampton Beach, NH w/o
23 Jul 1940 Bristol Blenheim Mk I L1105 5 OTU RAF 1 Frampton Mansell, Gloucestershire, England w/o
23 Jul 1940 Bristol Blenheim Mk IV L9414 107 Sqn RAF 3 Missing - English Channel. w/o
23 Jul 1940 Bristol Blenheim Mk IV R3820 21 Sqn RAF 3 North Sea one mile offshore, near RAF Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotland w/o
24 Jul 1940 Heinkel He 111H Wk nr ? Luftwaffe 4 in the Firth of Forth w/o
24 Jul 1940 Bristol Blenheim Mk IV R3748 110 (Hyderabad) Sqn RAF 3 North Sea, off Haamstede, Zeeland w/o
24 Jul 1940 Focke-Wulf Fw 58 Weihe Luftwaffe 0 Bergen Airfield, Noord-Holland w/o
24 Jul 1940 Caudron Luftwaffe 0 Bergen Airfield, Noord-Holland w/o
24 Jul 1940 Arado Ar 66 Luftwaffe 0 Bergen Airfield, Noord-Holland w/o
24 Jul 1940 Messerschmitt Bf 109E III./JG 54 Luftwaffe 0+4 Bergen Airfield, Noord-Holland w/o
24 Jul 1940 Messerschmitt Bf 109E Luftwaffe Soesterberg Airfield, Utrecht w/o
24 Jul 1940 Koolhoven Luftwaffe 0 Bergen Airfield, Noord-Holland w/o
24 Jul 1940 Junkers W.34 Luftwaffe 0+4 Bergen Airfield, Noord-Holland w/o
24 Jul 1940 Heinkel He 70 Luftwaffe 0 Bergen Airfield, Noord-Holland w/o
24 Jul 1940 Northrop BT-1 0640 US Navy 0 Pacific Ocean w/o
24 Jul 1940 Supermarine Spitfire Mk I N3041 66 Sqn RAF 0 North Sea, off Cromer, Norfolk, England w/o
24 Jul 1940 Supermarine Spitfire Mk Ia N3192 54 Sqn RAF 0 Beach at Dunwich w/o
24 Jul 1940 Fairey Battle Mk I L5482 12 OTU RAF 3 near North Stoke, south of Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England w/o
24 Jul 1940 Westland Lysander Mk II Türk Hava Kuvvetleri 1+1 Yeşilköy w/o
24 Jul 1940 Westland Lysander Mk II Türk Hava Kuvvetleri 1+1 Yeşilköy w/o
24 Jul 1940 Koolhoven FK.51 K-23 ML-KNIL 0 Lembang w/o
24 Jul 1940 Hawker Hurricane Mk 1 P3316 151 Sqn RAF 1 400 yards south of RAF North Weald, Essex, England w/o
24 Jul 1940 Messerschmitt Bf 109 III./JG 54 Luftwaffe 0 Bergen Airfield, Noord-Holland w/o
24 Jul 1940 Messerschmitt Bf 109 8./JG 54 Luftwaffe 0 Bergen Airfield, Noord-Holland sub
24 Jul 1940 Dornier Do 17 5./KG 2 Luftwaffe 0 Bergen Airfield, Noord-Holland sub
24 Jul 1940 Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor F8+BH 1./KG 40 Luftwaffe 2 Belfast Lough w/o
24 Jul 1940 Focke-Wulf Fw 44J 2602 Flugzeugführerschule (See) 1, Luftwaffe 1 Lichtenhagen, Rostock, Mecklenburg w/o
24 Jul 1940 Lockheed 14-H2 Super Electra SP-BPK LOT Polskie Linie Lotnicze Bucharest-Baneasa w/o
25 Jul 1940 Hawker Audax (India) K5567 28 Sqn RAF Ustarza, near Kohat w/o
25 Jul 1940 Vickers Wellington Mk IC R3235 75 (NZ) Sqn RAF 6 IJsselmeer 1 km east of Uitdam, Noord-Holland w/o
25 Jul 1940 Supermarine Spitfire Mk I P9421 64 Sqn RAF 1 mouth of the Schelde, Zeeland w/o
25 Jul 1940 North American BT-9B 37-120 United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) 5 mi N of San Antonio, TX w/o
25 Jul 1940 Bristol Blenheim Mk I L1482 211 Sqn RAF 0 LG.017 RAF Fuka min
25 Jul 1940 Bristol Blenheim Mk IV R3836 53 Sqn RAF 3 Waddenzee S of Terschelling, Friesland w/o
25 Jul 1940 Supermarine Spitfire Ia L1035 64 Sqn RAF 1 English Channel off Folkstone, England, w/o
25 Jul 1940 Curtiss P-36A Hawk 38-67 United States Army Air Force (USAAF) near Dunsuir AAF, Shasta Springs, CA w/o
25 Jul 1940 Bristol Blenheim Mk IV N6174 101 Sqn RAF 3 Missing - English Channel. w/o
26 Jul 1940 Handley Page Hampden Mk I L4094 83 Sqn RAF 3 Near Fluren, 4 km NW of Wesel, Nordrhein-Westfalen w/o
26 Jul 1940 Supermarine Spitfire Mk Ia P9392 212 Sqn RAF 1 Oberlethe near Oldenburg, Lower Saxony, Northern Germany. w/o
26 Jul 1940 Handley Page Hampden Mk I L4139 50 Sqn RAF 0 RAF Finningley, near Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England sub
26 Jul 1940 Bristol Blenheim Mk IV L9469 15 Sqn RAF 3 Boschplaat nature reserve, Terschelling, Friesland w/o
26 Jul 1940 Supermarine Spitfire Mk I K9815 609 (West Riding) Sqn RAF 0 Piddlehinton, Dorset, England w/o
26 Jul 1940 Supermarine Spitfire Mk I N3167 92 (East India) Sqn RAF 0 RAF Pembrey, Caernarvonshire, Wales w/o
26 Jul 1940 Supermarine Spitfire Mk I N3118 266 (Rhodesia) Sqn RAF 0 RAF Wittering, Cambridgeshire, England min
26 Jul 1940 Supermarine Spitfire Mk I N3288 603 (City of Edinburgh) Sqn RAF 0 RAF Dyce, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland sub
26 Jul 1940 Handley Page Hampden Mk I P1321 50 Sqn RAF 4 Happisburgh Beach, near Cromer, Norfolk w/o
26 Jul 1940 Blackburn Skua II L2906 801 Sqn FAA RN 2 North sea off Haugaland, Rogaland County, w/o
26 Jul 1940 Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-1 0060 US Navy 1 W of City Field, Pensacola, FL w/o
26 Jul 1940 Stearman NS-1 9697 US Navy 0 1 mi E of Olive, FL w/o
26 Jul 1940 Bristol Blenheim Mk IV R3763 40 Sqn RAF 0 west of Wilhelmshaven, mis
27 Jul 1940 Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk V N1377 102 Sqn RAF 0 Spijkenisse (De Nieuwe Uitslag van Putten polder), Zuid-Holland w/o
27 Jul 1940 Supermarine Spitfire Mk I N3287 92 (East India) Sqn RAF 0 2 miles south east of Chudleigh, near Exeter, England w/o

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