U-boat

Date

7 August 1944

Target

U-boat

Force dispatched

28 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

82 airmen in this archive died on 7 August 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.

• Lieutenant Anderson (27)
• Flight Sergeant John James Bales (21)
• Flight Lieutenant John Potter Ball (24)
• Flight Lieutenant Francis Reginald Barker (23)
• Air Mechanic John Belton
• Pilot Officer William Arthur James Bennet (21)
• Flying Officer George Chahoon Brown (20)
• Sergeant William Irvin Bruce (20)
• Pilot Officer Earl Stanley Cary (27)
• Flight Sergeant Vernon Edward Clark (23)
• Flight Sergeant Maurice George Cleave (31)
• Flight Sergeant Gerald Royce Clemens (30)
• Sergeant John Corless (24)
• Leading Aircraftman Peter William Crees (21)
• Pilot Officer Henri Edouard Dube
• Flight Lieutenant Warren Alvin Duffy (21)
• Pilot Officer John Chetwynd Durrant (30)
• Flight Lieutenant Frederick Charles Eldred (51)
• Sergeant John William Ellis (20)
• Flying Officer William Dawson Fairney (20)
• Flying Officer Robert Samuel Forestell (24)
• Flying Officer Edward Clason Gates (21)
• Warrant Officer Wilfred Gaughran
• Lieutenant Colonel Ginn (44)

See all 82 who died on 7 August →

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