Calais

Date

28 September 1944

Target

Calais, France

Force dispatched

494 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

37 airmen in this archive died on 28 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.

• Flying Officer Thomas Manning Curzon Ball (24)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Ernest George Betts (26)
• Leading Aircraftman Pierre Paul Enee Bordeleau (18)
• Flight Lieutenant Harold Earl Brown (29)
• Flight Sergeant Anthony James Cantwell (21)
• Flight Sergeant Gergo Caveridge (32)
• Pilot Officer Richard Eric Chambers (24)
• Wing Commander Colin Frank Mortlock Chapman (25)
• Pilot Officer Andrew McNeill Cleland
• Flying Officer Walter David Dick Cooper (29)
• Flying Officer John Edgar Cornelison
• Flight Sergeant Roy Cameron Coventry (21)
• Warrant Officer George Albert Davies (29)
• Flight Sergeant Thomas Sylvester Edwards (25)
• Flying Officer Peter William Fry (25)
• Flight Sergeant Robert Delmage Healy (28)
• Pilot Officer Norman Edward Hughes-games (21)
• Corporal John Francis Humphrey (24)
• Flying Officer Cyril George Hutchings
• Sergeant Howel Gwyn Jones (26)
• Pilot Officer Bernard Francis Lee (24)
• Flying Officer George Dewar Macleod (22)
• Flight Lieutenant James Wilson Mathers
• Flight Sergeant John Douglas McGowan

See all 37 who died on 28 September →

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