Aulnoye
10 April 1944 — Aulnoye
- Date
- 10 April 1944
- Target
- Aulnoye, France
Narrative
Aulnoye, a key junction near the Belgian border on the routes feeding northern France, was among the rail centres named in the first Transportation Plan directive of March 1944 and attacked through April. Cutting such junctions was intended to throttle the flow of German supplies and reinforcements toward the invasion coast.
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
353 airmen in this archive died on 10 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.
- Sergeant Harry Abbott (19)
- Sergeant James Morton Allan (31)
- Sergeant William James Anstey (20)
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Richard Archer
- Leading Aircraftman James Armstrong (23)
- Pilot Officer John Walter Armstrong (28)
- Pilot Officer Robert Henry Axton (21)
- Sergeant Alfred William Walter Ayres (22)
- Flight Lieutenant Donovan John Bacon (29)
- Sergeant Clive Walter Banfield
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Bernard Bannan (24)
- Sergeant Ronald Kenneth (ron) Barlow (20)
- Flight Lieutenant William George Barnes (23)
- Flight Lieutenant Frank Sharpe Barnsdale (23)
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred Gallagher Barrett (31)
- Wing Commander Oswald James Milman Barron (27)
- Flight Sergeant Douglas Richard Beesley (22)
- Pilot Officer Milton Harold Bender (20)
- Flight Sergeant Jack Bernaldo (27)
- Flying Officer David Louis Biggs (21)
- Flight Sergeant Clive Billett (25)
- Pilot Officer Stanley Blackburn (23)
- Flight Sergeant John Cecil Bond (23)
- Flying Officer Peter William Booth-smith
See all 353 who died on 10 April →
Source: Wikipedia — Transport Plan →