Mondeville

Date

14 April 1942

Target

Mondeville

Force dispatched

12 aircraft

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

131 airmen in this archive died on 14 April 1942 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 Alan William Amey (25)
• Flight Lieutenant Daniel Richard Arkell
• Sergeant Thomas John Bacon (26)
• Pilot Officer Richard George Banks (28)
• Flight Sergeant Frank Douglas Barbour (25)
• Flying Officer Gordon Herbert Batchelor (23)
• Flying Officer Derek Alan Raikes Bee
• Sergeant Lionel Leslie Bennett (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Robert Graham Webster Beveridge (25)
• Sergeant Kenneth Alan Birch (22)
• Pilot Officer Richard Bloor (24)
• Flight Sergeant Joseph Boisvert (27)
• Flight Lieutenant Miles Brunette Bowker (34)
• Sergeant Horace Stanley Brown (30)
• Flight Sergeant William Alexander Coulson Browne (25)
• Sergeant Clifford Henry Bryant (20)
• Flight Sergeant John Cormack (22)
• Leading Aircraftman John Connell Cowan
• Flight Sergeant David Reid Cox (23)
• Sergeant Stanley Wilson Charles Culmer (26)
• Flight Sergeant Henry Francis Stain Darley
• Sergeant Victor George Deacon (21)
• Flight Sergeant Keith Marius Dixon (24)
• Pilot Officer Andrew Downie (21)

See all 131 who died on 14 April →

Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →