Ottignies

Date

20 April 1944

Target

Ottignies

Force dispatched

196 aircraft

Aircraft lost

1

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

191 airmen in this archive died on 20 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 Donald George Abbey (23)
• Flying Officer James Thompson Agnew (27)
• Flight Sergeant William Murray Aitken (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Edward Alderson (28)
• Sergeant Geoffrey Aldridge (22)
• Leading Aircraftman Horace Dudley Armstrong (19)
• Sergeant John Atkinson (22)
• Pilot Officer Gerald Joseph Atwell (27)
• Leading Aircraftman Edward Roy Aylett
• Flying Officer James Francis Banister (24)
• Leading Aircraftman Leslie Sidney Barnett (32)
• Flight Sergeant Ernest Rowe Newton Barrell (29)
• Flying Officer Ernest Malcolm Barrett (29)
• Sergeant Arthur Maurice Belshaw (20)
• Sergeant Cecil Thomas Bishop (19)
• Flight Sergeant Denzil Yorke Bishop (24)
• Flying Officer Frederick John Blute (33)
• Sergeant John Beedie Bowen (20)
• Flying Officer Robert Gerald Campbell Brodie (21)
• Pilot Officer James Gerald Brown (20)
• Flight Sergeant John Eyre Brown (21)
• Flight Sergeant Maurice George Brown (20)
• Pilot Officer Thomas James Burgess (21)
• Sergeant Thomas Herbert Burke (33)

See all 191 who died on 20 April →

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