Breskens

Date

11 October 1944

Target

Breskens

Force dispatched

361 aircraft

Sortie details (which aircraft from which squadron, which crew flew, the outcome) will populate this page once the TNA AIR 27 squadron-diary importer arrives.

The fallen

52 airmen in this archive died on 11 October 1944 or the day that followed. For a raid of this kind these are overwhelmingly the night's losses, though a death-date match is not by itself proof an individual flew this operation.

• Lieutenant Armstrong
• Leading Aircraftman John Douglas Beck (25)
• Warrant Officer Class I Bloch (21)
• Flight Sergeant Robert John Bolton (19)
• Flight Sergeant William Thomas Borrowman (23)
• Lieutenant Collard (19)
• Sergeant Gerald Coyle (24)
• Sergeant William David Crail
• Sergeant John Derbyshire (29)
• Flight Lieutenant Ian Mackenzie Duff (29)
• Flight Sergeant Edward Charles Fitzgerald (20)
• Warrant Officer John Richardson Gibson (24)
• Warrant Officer Class I Edward William Goodchild (26)
• Warrant Officer Stewart Alfred Hamilton (20)
• Lieutenant Harrison
• Lieutenant Ross Henry (22)
• Flying Officer Arthur James Horrell (24)
• Leading Aircraftman William David Houston (44)
• Flight Sergeant Leslie Robert Johnston (22)
• Flight Sergeant Ronald George Kingsley (21)
• Warrant Officer Jack William Langley (29)
• Leading Aircraftman Oscar Frederick Larson (33)
• Flight Sergeant Clarence William Lawton (23)
• Lieutenant Lloyd (23)

See all 52 who died on 11 October →

Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →