Flushing

Date

21 October 1944

Target

Flushing

Force dispatched

78 aircraft

Aircraft lost

1

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

30 airmen in this archive died on 21 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.

• Flying Officer Francis Aubrey Bell (33)
• Flight Sergeant Earl William Bock (21)
• Squadron Leader Kenneth Arthur Boomer
• Flying Officer Walter William Ronald Dawes (22)
• Sergeant Peter Stockley Foster
• Flight Lieutenant Noel James Gibbons (29)
• Leading Aircraftman William Eric Hall (30)
• Pilot Officer Brian Charlton Jeffares (21)
• Flying Officer John Armstrong Johnston (27)
• Sergeant Frank Campbell Jones (22)
• Leading Aircraftman Joseph Boyd Lalonde (32)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Donald Valentine Loader
• Lieutenant John Raymond Lund (20)
• Pilot Officer John McCormack (30)
• Warrant Officer Vincent John O'Loughlin (26)
• Pilot Officer George Arthur Palmer (27)
• Leading Aircraftman Percival James Parker
• Flying Officer Alexander Mitchell Penman (23)
• Sergeant Harvey Ellsworth Pyche (21)
• Sergeant George Riddoch (20)
• Warrant Officer Lawrence Geoffrey Robertson (21)
• Flying Officer Donald Ansley Sandman (27)
• Pilot Officer Norman Albert Stevens (27)
• Leading Aircraftman Glen Joseph Stumph (21)

See all 30 who died on 21 October →

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