Le Havre

Date

9 September 1944

Target

Le Havre, France

Force dispatched

272 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

35 airmen in this archive died on 9 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)
• Sergeant Jacob Anderson (48)
• Air Mechanic Andrews (23)
• Flying Officer Derek Allan Attwood (20)
• 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
• Flight Sergeant Robert Archibald Corbett (22)
• Corporal Francis William Darlington
• Pilot Officer Stanley James Dawson (29)
• Flying Officer Mervyn K. Emsig (20)
• Corporal Jack Garside
• Warrant Officer Geoffrey James Innes (30)
• Air Corporal Kimbrey
• Flying Officer Frederick Stanley Le Gear (21)
• Air Mechanic Maeder
• Flying Officer John Aitcheson Maguire (24)
• Warrant Officer Class II Leslie Herbert Grove Mitchell (31)

See all 35 who died on 9 September →

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