Juvisy
18 April 1944 — Juvisy
- Date
- 18 April 1944
- Target
- Juvisy, France
Narrative
On the night of 18/19 April 1944 No. 5 Group attacked the railway yards at Juvisy, on the southern edge of Paris, using its low-level visual marking technique. The bombing was extraordinarily concentrated and accurate, devastating the yards while keeping damage to the surrounding French districts comparatively low — a model of what precision area marking could achieve against a pinpoint target.
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
186 airmen in this archive died on 18 April 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.
- Pilot Officer Henry Harris Adams (40)
- Sergeant Frederick Thomas George Atkins (20)
- Sergeant George Edward Bailey (23)
- Sergeant John Faulds Barron (25)
- Flight Sergeant Dudley Clive Bates (20)
- Flight Sergeant Warwick Melville Beauchamp (20)
- Sergeant David Henry Beechey (19)
- Pilot Officer James Bond (jimmie) Bell (22)
- Sergeant Alfred Bennett
- Warrant Officer Class II Henry Bennis (22)
- Leading Aircraftman William Bird (34)
- Pilot Officer John Birnie (20)
- Flight Lieutenant Frank Nelson Boulton (26)
- Flying Officer Edward John Bowers (23)
- Lieutenant Brand (20)
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Scott Brissenden (20)
- Sergeant Owen McDavid Brown (19)
- Flight Lieutenant Peter George Fleming Brown (22)
- Sergeant John Fraser Brunton (19)
- Flying Officer Herbert Eric Victor Budge (23)
- Sergeant Alan Kenneth Butcher (20)
- Flight Sergeant James William Carr (21)
- Pilot Officer David Beatty Carter (21)
- Flight Sergeant Barry William Casey (24)
See all 186 who died on 18 April →
Source: Wikipedia — Transport Plan →