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Date

29 April 1944

Target

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Force dispatched

20 aircraft

Aircraft lost

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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

52 airmen in this archive died on 29 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.

• Leading Aircraftman Arthur Allonby (28)
• Flying Officer Richard Bailes
• Flying Officer Rex Edward Beach (20)
• Sergeant Frederick Boardman
• Sergeant Donald Maurice Challis (22)
• Flying Officer John Arundel Collis
• Aircraftman 1st Class Charles William Arthur Daniels (35)
• Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Preston Davies (22)
• Squadron Leader Allyn Clive Douglass (25)
• Flight Sergeant Ivan Alexander William Gilmore (28)
• Warrant Officer Roland Corner Glew
• Flying Officer Oliver Lovatt Harrington (23)
• Flight Lieutenant Wilbert Arley Healey (30)
• Leading Aircraftman Laurence Alfred Higgins (20)
• Sergeant Harold Gordon Hill (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Thomas James Hogan (33)
• Sergeant Tom Atwell Hutchison (34)
• Flying Officer Brian Jagger (22)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Roy Johnston
• Sergeant Joseph Jones (24)
• Corporal Gilbert Peter Kemp (39)
• Flight Lieutenant John Albert Kirby (29)
• Flight Lieutenant Cyril Christian Kissner (37)
• Leading Aircraftman Arthur John Lane

See all 52 who died on 29 April →

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