Dugny

Date

10 August 1944

Target

Dugny

Force dispatched

197 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

39 airmen in this archive died on 10 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.

• Squadron Leader Robert Stanley Blackler (29)
• Flying Officer Wilfred Sidney Bond (27)
• Corporal James Theodore Breadon (57)
• Lieutenant Ronald Briggs (23)
• Warrant Officer Harold Eric Brock (21)
• Pilot Officer Geoffrey William Brown (33)
• Flight Sergeant Robert Paul Scott Brown (20)
• Sergeant William Bryce (22)
• Leading Aircraftman Norman McCallum Campbell (28)
• Warrant Officer Alan Lancaster Chappell (23)
• Pilot Officer Elmo Foster Christy (20)
• Flying Officer Harold Thomas Crampton (26)
• Sergeant Lloyd Henderson Fraser (20)
• Flight Lieutenant Francis Walker Grosvenor (22)
• Pilot Officer Charles Gifford Hill (20)
• Flight Sergeant Kenneth Shurvin Jones (31)
• Warrant Officer William Thomas Jones (28)
• Flying Officer Leo Albert Kempson (22)
• Sergeant Alvin Eric Kidney (27)
• Sergeant Leeming Cameron Lamb (23)
• Sergeant Leo Mox Lysak (31)
• Flight Sergeant Reginald Thomas White Marsh
• Squadron Leader David William McCormack (26)
• Corporal Phillip Lancelot Minett (28)

See all 39 who died on 10 August →

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