Noisy-le-sec
18 April 1944 — Noisy-le-sec
- Date
- 18 April 1944
- Target
- Noisy-le-sec, France
Narrative
The railway town of Noisy-le-Sec, on the north-eastern outskirts of Paris, was bombed on the night of 18/19 April 1944. The yards were badly damaged, but the attack also fell on the closely-packed town around them, killing some 460 French civilians and destroying much of Noisy-le-Sec. It became one of the most grievous examples of the civilian cost of the Transportation Plan in France.
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 →