Rouen
18 April 1944 — Rouen
- Date
- 18 April 1944
- Target
- Rouen, France
Narrative
The marshalling yards at Rouen, on the Seine between Paris and the coast, were attacked on the night of 18/19 April 1944 as one of several Paris-region and Normandy rail centres struck that night. Cutting the Seine crossings and the yards that fed them was central to isolating the future battlefield in Normandy from German reinforcement.
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 →