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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 331 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.
List of shipwrecks: 1 December 1941 Ship State Description Adriatico Regia Marina World War II: The armed merchant cruiser (1,976 t) was shelled and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea, 65 nautical miles (120 km) north of Benghazi, Libya by Force K, Royal Navy.
World War II: The cargo ship was bombed and sunk at Gotenhafen, Germany by Allied aircraft. She was refloated in 1945. Subsequently repaired and entered Polish service in May 1949 as Warta. [137] Zähringen Kriegsmarine: World War II: The target ship, a former Wittelsbach-class battleship, was bombed and sunk at Gotenhafen by Royal Air Force ...
World War II: The M 1935-class minesweeper was sunk at Bergen in an air raid by Avro Lancaster aircraft of 9 and 617 Squadrons, Royal Air Force using Tallboy bombs. Twenty of the ship's crew were killed in the sinking.
The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinking after being torpedoed by a German submarine in November 1941, the assisting destroyer HMS Legion was sunk in 1942. This is a list of Royal Navy ships and personnel lost during World War II, from 3 September 1939 to 1 October 1945. See also List of ships of the Royal Navy.
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 auxiliary cruiser was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea north of Tobruk by Bristol Beaufort aircraft of 39 Squadron, Royal Air Force. Three of her crew were killed. Three of her crew were killed.