Le Havre

Date

6 September 1944

Target

Le Havre, France

Force dispatched

344 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

33 airmen in this archive died on 6 September 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.

• Corporal Kenneth Scott Adlard
• Flying Officer Clifton Llewellyn Andrew (34)
• Sergeant Victor Stanley James Belt (25)
• Corporal Fred Boulton (24)
• Sergeant William Albert Breach (35)
• Sergeant Charles James Brereton (21)
• Wing Commander Neil Ballingal Reid Bromley (29)
• Flight Lieutenant George Francis Cornwell (25)
• Flight Sergeant Alan Livingstone Currie (20)
• Leading Aircraftman Edwin Orville Cuthill (20)
• Squadron Leader Leslie Roy Dawson (40)
• Leading Aircraftman Thomas Henry Dixon (24)
• Warrant Officer Class I Joseph Alphonse Raymond Dore
• Air Mechanic Drane (21)
• Squadron Leader James Grant Fleming
• Flying Officer Frederick William Greenwood (28)
• Flight Sergeant Reginald Arthur Groves (19)
• Warrant Officer John Henry Hedger (23)
• Sergeant Beverley Gordon Kitchen (20)
• Corporal David Mailis Marr (39)
• Flying Officer Edwin Earl McCann
• Flying Officer John Russell Pound
• Flying Officer Norman William Powell (19)
• Flying Officer William Bruce Richardson (22)

See all 33 who died on 6 September →

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