For

Date

8 August 1944

Target

For

Force dispatched

202 aircraft

Aircraft lost

2

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

81 airmen in this archive died on 8 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.

• Flight Lieutenant John Potter Ball (24)
• Warrant Officer William Morris Barden (23)
• Flying Officer Richard William Raven Bath (22)
• Air Mechanic John Belton
• Flying Officer John Stewart Beresford
• Flying Officer George Chahoon Brown (20)
• Pilot Officer Lionel Frederick Walter Burrow (20)
• Flight Lieutenant Arthur Reginald Carter (25)
• Pilot Officer Robert Marwood Cass (30)
• Flight Sergeant Maurice George Cleave (31)
• Flight Sergeant Gerald Royce Clemens (30)
• Flying Officer James McVicar Clement
• Sergeant John Corless (24)
• Leading Aircraftman Peter William Crees (21)
• Pilot Officer Henri Edouard Dube
• Pilot Officer John Chetwynd Durrant (30)
• Flying Officer Frederick Charles Eastley
• Flight Lieutenant Frederick Charles Eldred (51)
• Flight Sergeant Alan Francis Charles Elwood (24)
• Flying Officer William Dawson Fairney (20)
• Pilot Officer Roy Stanley Ferguson
• Flying Officer Robert Samuel Forestell (24)
• Warrant Officer Wilfred Gaughran
• Pilot Officer Harry Glass (23)

See all 81 who died on 8 August →

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