Operation Bellicose
20 June 1943 — Friedrichshafen
- Date
- 20 June 1943
- Target
- Friedrichshafen, Germany
- Force dispatched
- 60 aircraft
Narrative
First Bomber Command shuttle raid: Lancasters attacked the Zeppelin works at Friedrichshafen then flew on to land in Allied-controlled North Africa.
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
70 airmen in this archive died on 20 June 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.
- Leading Aircraftman Alfred Edwin Beavan (24)
- Aircraftman 1st Class Robert Allan Bell (22)
- Flying Officer Clifford Marvin Bingham (22)
- Sergeant John Blackie (20)
- Aircraftman 1st Class John Hobson Brocklehurst (20)
- Sergeant Brown
- Flying Officer Derek Frank Paston Brown (23)
- Pilot Officer James Moyes Brown (22)
- Aircraftman 1st Class John William Cannon
- Leading Aircraftman Geoffrey Hardman Carter (21)
- Corporal Michael Ronald Casey (25)
- Leading Aircraftman Haydn Rendal Charles
- Flight Sergeant John Charles Everett Clarke (19)
- Flight Sergeant Garnet Charles Cooper (32)
- Flight Sergeant Robert Croxton-davis (21)
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Norman Daniels (18)
- Pilot Officer James Denholm (21)
- Flying Officer Archibald Bertram Charles Durnell
- Flying Officer John Charles Elliott
- Sergeant Walter Idris Ettle (22)
- Flight Sergeant John Richard Fast
- Aircraftman 1st Class Edward Ernest Gess (19)
- Leading Aircraftman Reginald James Alfred Goodman (24)
- Flying Officer Harold Garfield Handley (21)