Le Havre

Date

8 September 1944

Target

Le Havre, France

Force dispatched

333 aircraft

Aircraft lost

2

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

38 airmen in this archive died on 8 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.

• Warrant Officer William Gibbs Abbott (22)
• Sergeant Charles Franklin Adair (19)
• Air Mechanic Andrews (23)
• Pilot Officer Maxwell Herron Bell (21)
• Lieutenant Bennee (21)
• Warrant Officer Class I Botha
• Lieutenant Brall
• Sergeant James Martin Brodie (46)
• Flying Officer Robert James Calford (21)
• Flying Officer John James Carson (27)
• Air Corporal Cheesman
• Pilot Officer George Churchard (21)
• Warrant Officer Thomas William Coburn (24)
• Pilot Officer William Neville Daniel (20)
• Pilot Officer Stanley James Dawson (29)
• Flying Officer Russell David Durling (19)
• Flying Officer Mervyn K. Emsig (20)
• Flight Lieutenant John Edward Goddard (21)
• Flight Sergeant William Hashim (24)
• Flight Sergeant Noel Whitmarsh Hawkins (24)
• Warrant Officer Geoffrey James Innes (30)
• Sergeant Albert Coulthurst Jones (37)
• Air Corporal Kimbrey
• Flight Lieutenant Robert Fraser Logie

See all 38 who died on 8 September →

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