La Pallice
19 August 1944 — La Pallice
- Date
- 19 August 1944
- Target
- La Pallice
- Force dispatched
- 53 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
60 airmen in this archive died on 19 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.
- Flying Officer Sydney Philip Aldridge (24)
- Flight Sergeant Eric James Anderson (20)
- Leading Aircraftman Laurie Everet Atkinson (20)
- Flying Officer Norman Kitchener Baird
- Pilot Officer Joseph Laurent Willie Bilodeau (21)
- Sergeant George Arthur Bryant (22)
- Flying Officer Arthur Keith Buckland (25)
- Sergeant Thomas Briton Carey (22)
- Warrant Officer Class I Robert Edward Clarke (37)
- Corporal Charles Clow (39)
- Flight Lieutenant Basil Gordon Collyns (31)
- Leading Aircraftman George Hamilton Crawford (20)
- Flight Sergeant Evan Bertram Davies (23)
- Flying Officer Leo John David Di Marco (24)
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Leslie Dunn (23)
- Warrant Officer Arthur Francis Dunstan (25)
- Flight Sergeant Surtees Elliott (26)
- Pilot Officer John Thomas Naldrett Frost (22)
- Warrant Officer Ronald Desmond Gilbert (22)
- Sergeant Robert Bruce Gillespie (23)
- Pilot Officer Ralph Edward Good
- Pilot Officer Alfred Kenneth Green (27)
- Flight Sergeant John Moore Hart (28)
- Flying Officer Charles William Howard (20)
See all 60 who died on 19 August →
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →