Siracourt
25 June 1944 — Siracourt
- Date
- 25 June 1944
- Target
- Siracourt, France
Narrative
The bunker at Siracourt, codenamed by the Germans ‘Wasserwerk St Pol’, was a vast concrete structure meant to store and launch V-1 flying bombs in safety. In late June 1944 it was wrecked by Tallboy bombs from the Royal Air Force — the supposedly bomb-proof shelter proving unable to withstand the six-ton earthquake bomb, part of the ‘Heavy Crossbow’ campaign against the great V-weapon bunkers.
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
90 airmen in this archive died on 25 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.
- Pilot Officer Douglas Earl Aiken (23)
- Pilot Officer James William Alcorn (20)
- Flying Officer William Long Baker (25)
- Flight Sergeant Bramwell Rockliff Barber (20)
- Flight Sergeant George William Bateman (32)
- Flight Sergeant Benjamin William Bateson (22)
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Kenneth Begg (21)
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Bell (24)
- Pilot Officer Arthur Albert William Berryman (29)
- Flight Sergeant William Beutel (20)
- Pilot Officer Herbert Blaydes (28)
- Warrant Officer Richmond Antony Barrett Blumer (23)
- Flight Lieutenant William Wrixon Boylson (25)
- Flight Lieutenant Frank Cecil Bremner
- Flight Sergeant Herbert Kenith Brown (21)
- Lieutenant Brummer (28)
- Warrant Officer Class II Lloyd Weldon Burnside (22)
- Warrant Officer Hubert George Carlyle (30)
- Flight Lieutenant Barrington Farr Cleeton (21)
- Flying Officer Frank Peter Clegg (21)
- Flight Sergeant Francis Anthony Coady (19)
- Flight Sergeant Dalton Morgan Corbett (29)
- Flight Lieutenant Roland Reginald Cowan (24)
- Flight Sergeant Finlay Ewart Munro Crawford (20)