Revigny
14 July 1944 — Revigny
- Date
- 14 July 1944
- Target
- Revigny, France
Narrative
The small railway junction at Revigny, on the line carrying German reinforcements toward Normandy, was the object of three Bomber Command attacks in July 1944. The raids ran into strong night-fighter defences and cost a high proportion of the relatively small forces sent — a reminder that even the pre-invasion rail campaign over France could be as dangerous as the deep raids into Germany.
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
78 airmen in this archive died on 14 July 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 Leo Reginald Abrahams (22)
- Sergeant John Charles Anderson (19)
- Lieutenant Andrews (23)
- Flying Officer Newark Thomas Andrews (24)
- Corporal David Leighton Bartlett (21)
- Leading Aircraftman Omer Herve Bouchard (22)
- Warrant Officer Douglas Leopold Burke (20)
- Flight Lieutenant John Cowper Cheetham (35)
- Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Clegg (24)
- Pilot Officer Daniel Francis Connolly (22)
- Wing Commander Patrick Edward Geoffrey G. Connolly (30)
- Flying Officer Albert Antoine Desilets (23)
- Flight Sergeant Kevin Leslie Thomas Dickerson (20)
- Flying Officer Colin Campbell Duncan (20)
- Flying Officer Allan Grant Echlin (25)
- Flight Sergeant Harry William Evans (23)
- Flying Officer John Taylor Evans (33)
- Flight Sergeant Ignatius Joseph Flynn (21)
- Flying Officer Alexander Forsyth
- Aircraftman 1st Class Joseph Robert Henri Gagnon (22)
- Flight Lieutenant Stewart Foster Garland (24)
- Warrant Officer Class I David Robb Gilchrist (44)
- Pilot Officer Nelson Hagey Groh (28)
- Pilot Officer Frederick Charles Hampton (24)
See all 78 who died on 14 July →
Source: Wikipedia — Transport Plan →