Boulogne

Date

20 April 1943

Target

Boulogne, France

Force dispatched

36 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

276 airmen in this archive died on 20 April 1943 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 Adam Anderson (20)
• Pilot Officer Frederick James Mackenzie Ashdown (30)
• Corporal George Thomas Atkinson (34)
• Sergeant John Watts Bagley (22)
• Lieutenant Ballard (21)
• Sergeant David Frank Rawlinson Banks (20)
• Pilot Officer John Loughnan Barnes (32)
• Sergeant Alexander Barrie (32)
• Sergeant Clarence Bertram Barrott (31)
• Warrant Officer Class II Gordon Harold Bartman (24)
• Pilot Officer Trevor William Bassan (24)
• Warrant Officer Class II William David Bates (25)
• Flight Sergeant Thomas Samuel Eric Bennett (31)
• Sergeant Peter Bigg (19)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Albert Henry Birch (37)
• Squadron Leader Wilfred Albert Blake
• Leading Aircraftman Thomas Boan (20)
• Sergeant Thomas Boland (22)
• Sergeant Arthur Bone (22)
• Pilot Officer Ernest Booth (30)
• Flight Sergeant Frederick James Bowles (26)
• Flight Sergeant Gordon Ediss Boyes (20)
• Sergeant George Brady (36)
• Sergeant Bruce Thomas Brett (21)

See all 276 who died on 20 April →

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