Abbeville

Date

21 April 1943

Target

Abbeville

Force dispatched

14 aircraft

Aircraft lost

3

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

261 airmen in this archive died on 21 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)
• Sergeant John Watts Bagley (22)
• Lieutenant Ballard (21)
• Sergeant David Frank Rawlinson Banks (20)
• Flying Officer John Hamilton Barnes (26)
• Sergeant Clarence Bertram Barrott (31)
• Pilot Officer Walter Robert Bartley (24)
• Warrant Officer Class II Gordon Harold Bartman (24)
• Flight Sergeant Donald Sylvester Beare
• Leading Aircraftman Eric Belfield (19)
• Flight Sergeant Thomas Samuel Eric Bennett (31)
• Sergeant Peter Bigg (19)
• Squadron Leader Wilfred Albert Blake
• Corporal George Albert Bolland (21)
• Sergeant Arthur Bone (22)
• Flying Officer John William Borum (30)
• Flight Sergeant Frederick James Bowles (26)
• Sergeant Archie Gordon Boyd (28)
• Flight Sergeant Gordon Ediss Boyes (20)
• Pilot Officer Lloyd Latimer Bradley
• Sergeant George Brady (36)
• Pilot Officer Eric William Bray (31)
• Leading Aircraftman George Peter Burcher (19)

See all 261 who died on 21 April →

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