Aulnoye

Date

27 April 1944

Target

Aulnoye, France

Force dispatched

223 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

450 airmen in this archive died on 27 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 Royston John Edward Adey (21)
• Sergeant Robert Harold Aiano (20)
• Pilot Officer Oscar Jacob Albrecht (39)
• Flying Officer William Wilson Alexander (26)
• Flight Lieutenant Clifford Arthur Lawrence Allen (23)
• Flight Lieutenant Lawrence Allen (26)
• Leading Aircraftman Donald David Alliston (22)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur Amey (19)
• Sergeant Frank Iron Anderson
• Flight Sergeant Lionel David Anderson (22)
• Sergeant William Gowland Anderson (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Robert Gow Armstrong (22)
• Pilot Officer James Lever Atherton (32)
• Leading Aircraftman Edward James Bailey (23)
• Aircraftman 1st Class James Frederick Balham
• Warrant Officer Class II Arthur John George Barnes (22)
• Sergeant Robert Dennis Parker Barrett (25)
• Flying Officer Edward Bashi (26)
• Sergeant Francis Henry Bathmaker (21)
• Sergeant Alan Beattie (20)
• Flying Officer Andrew Allan Bell (21)
• Flight Sergeant Duncan Neilson Bell (19)
• Pilot Officer William John Bell (21)
• Sergeant Hubert Francis Benbow (23)

See all 450 who died on 27 April →

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