Toulouse

Date

5 April 1944

Target

Toulouse

Force dispatched

37 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

86 airmen in this archive died on 5 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.

• Flight Sergeant William Jeremiah Allen (61)
• Flight Sergeant Frederick Preston Aspin (52)
• Flying Officer James Edgar Victor Banning (31)
• Flight Sergeant John Samuel Barker (25)
• Flying Officer Frank Barlow
• Flight Sergeant Jerome Gerard Belec
• Flying Officer Norman David Brown (19)
• Flight Sergeant Frederick Thomas Robert Bruce (32)
• Sergeant Gerald Leonard Buist (20)
• Pilot Officer John Joseph Burke (22)
• Warrant Officer Peter Phillip Cowan
• Squadron Leader Rene Jean Ghislain Demoulin (23)
• Sergeant Ernest Anthony Dempsey (21)
• Sergeant Joseph Ronald Dowling (25)
• Pilot Officer Robert Downing (21)
• Corporal Charles Fred Dugdale (23)
• Flight Sergeant Richard Applegarth Dunn (24)
• Leading Aircraftman Nyal Larue Earl (22)
• Flight Sergeant Leonard Alfred Everett
• Aircraftman 2nd Class William Foxe (18)
• Sergeant John Archibald Freeman (22)
• Flying Officer Bernard Basil Gateley
• Flight Sergeant Victor Albert Graham
• Flight Lieutenant Arthur Herbert Green (25)

See all 86 who died on 5 April →

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