Achères
7 June 1944 — Achères
- Date
- 7 June 1944
- Target
- Achères, France
- Force dispatched
- 337 aircraft
Narrative
On the night of 7/8 June 1944, the day after the landings, 337 aircraft — 195 Halifaxes, 122 Lancasters and 20 Mosquitoes — attacked the railway yards at Achères, Juvisy, Massy-Palaiseau and Versailles around Paris to choke the German rail reinforcement of Normandy. With the beachhead won, cutting the railways behind the front had become urgent, and these post-invasion attacks pressed the Transportation Plan to its conclusion.
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
196 airmen in this archive died on 7 June 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 Ethan Allen (25)
- Squadron Leader William Brodie Anderson (30)
- Sergeant Kenneth Raymond Ansell (22)
- Flight Sergeant James Edward Armstrong (22)
- Pilot Officer Algot Leon Arnell (21)
- Pilot Officer John Peter Artyniuk (23)
- Sergeant William Wallington Astles
- Flight Sergeant Louis Michael Gabriel Baker (28)
- Flight Sergeant Tom Bamford (24)
- Warrant Officer Class I William James Banner (24)
- Warrant Officer Bruce George Barton (21)
- Flight Sergeant Robert Beard (22)
- Pilot Officer Harry Beazley (26)
- Flying Officer Douglas Gordon Biggs
- Flight Sergeant Bryan Bowker (33)
- Flying Officer Francis Allan Boyce
- Corporal Harry Wilfred Boyd (23)
- Flying Officer William Stanley Brennan (32)
- Flight Sergeant Gilbert Francis Brown (20)
- Flight Lieutenant Wallace Hilton Brown (36)
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Edward Bryan (21)
- Flying Officer Ronald Henry Buchan-hepburn (21)
- Flying Officer Alexander Donaldson Callander (21)
- Sergeant Marshall William Card (23)
See all 196 who died on 7 June →
Source: Wikipedia — Transport Plan →