For

Date

12 August 1944

Target

For

Force dispatched

117 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

151 airmen in this archive died on 12 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)
• Flight Sergeant John Alfred Adams (21)
• Flying Officer Allen (23)
• Flight Sergeant William Ronald Andrew (22)
• Pilot Officer John French Andrews (30)
• 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)
• Flying Officer John Bilbe (33)
• Pilot Officer Joseph Patrick Birmingham
• Flight Sergeant Eric Alan Bock (21)
• Flying Officer Charles Stewart Bogle (21)
• Flying Officer Kenneth Brayne
• Flight Lieutenant William Wood Lindsay Brown (27)
• Flight Sergeant Irvin Gordon Thomas Brownlee
• Flight Lieutenant Theordore Alexander Bugg (24)
• Flying Officer Robert James Burns (30)
• Flight Sergeant John Kean Burnside (32)
• Pilot Officer Henry Andrew Burt (32)
• Flying Officer John Harold Busby (24)
• Flight Sergeant Roy Wallace Butler (19)

See all 151 who died on 12 August →

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