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Pages in category "Royal Air Force personnel killed in World War II" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 332 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. (previous page)
Cap Arcona – On 3 May the prison ship, carrying concentration camp refugees, was attacked by the British Royal Air Force . The ship caught fire and capsized, leaving an estimated 4,800 - 7000 dead. The vast majority were concentration camp prisoners reported as on their way to Sweden but possibly to be drowned by scuttling the ships.
British military personnel killed in action in the Second World War (1939-1945). Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable. This category may require frequent maintenance to avoid becoming too large.
1945. On 29 September PD343 an Avro Lancaster B.1 of No. 550 Squadron RAF went missing on a flight from Italy to the United Kingdom with 26 on board. [1]On 2 October KH219 a Consolidated Liberator GR.6 of No. 203 Squadron RAF went missing in the Bay of Bengal returning to Singapore on a supply flight, 12 on board.
This list of ships of the Second World War contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type. The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop and prisoner repatriation, to the end of 1945.
World War II: The cargo ship was bombed and sunk in the Indian Ocean off Haiphong, French Indochina) by Consolidated B-24 Liberator aircraft of the American Fourteenth Air Force. [6] [144] MS 62 Regia Marina: World War II: The MS 51-class MS boat was sunk at Milazzo by Allied aircraft.
Royal Navy: World War II: The auxiliary ship was bombed and sunk at London by Luftwaffe aircraft. [6] Gand Belgium: World War II: Convoy OB 318: The cargo ship was torpedoed, shelled and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by U-552 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of one of her 43 crew.
During the First World War, 3,305 merchant ships were sunk with a total of around 17,000 crew and personnel lost. In the Second World War, 4,786 merchant ships were sunk with a total of around 32,000 crew and personnel lost. Not all these ship losses are named on this memorial, as some ships were sunk or captured with no casualties.