Givors

Date

11 August 1944

Target

Givors

Force dispatched

14 aircraft

Aircraft lost

1

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

61 airmen in this archive died on 11 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 Sergeant Kevin Kenny Abrams (24)
• Flying Officer Allen (23)
• Flying Officer William Andrews (24)
• Group Captain Charles Henry Appleton (38)
• Pilot Officer Cecil Axford (21)
• Pilot Officer Earle Edward Baker (29)
• Flying Officer William John Bentley (24)
• Lieutenant Eric Bestwick (21)
• Squadron Leader Robert Stanley Blackler (29)
• Corporal James Theodore Breadon (57)
• Pilot Officer Geoffrey William Brown (33)
• Sergeant William Bryce (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Theordore Alexander Bugg (24)
• Flight Sergeant Reginald Hubert Cato (32)
• Flying Officer Alexander Robert Craine (30)
• Flying Officer Harold Thomas Crampton (26)
• Flight Lieutenant Evan Campbell Devine (22)
• Flying Officer John Fraser Dewar (20)
• Lieutenant Geoffrey Wigton Dibb (21)
• Air Mechanic Dolby
• Pilot Officer William Elvin (22)
• Pilot Officer John Reginald Forrest
• Sergeant Lloyd Henderson Fraser (20)
• Second Lieutenant D'Urban Godlonton

See all 61 who died on 11 August →

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