Abbeville

Date

2 February 1943

Target

Abbeville

Force dispatched

36 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

173 airmen in this archive died on 2 February 1943 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.

• Sergeant John Caldwell Adam (28)
• Pilot Officer John Methven Robertson Adams (34)
• Sergeant Leopold Gordon Alexander
• Pilot Officer Ralph Leonard Alexander
• Sergeant James Allan (22)
• Sergeant Francis Frederick Allen (23)
• Flight Lieutenant Frederick Cameron Anderson (25)
• Flying Officer Peter Clyde Astrosky (28)
• Flying Officer Stanley Maurice Austin (20)
• Sergeant Francis Louis Ayley (24)
• Flight Sergeant Marcus Edgar Barker (26)
• Sergeant Stanley David Beadon
• Flying Officer Clive Ronald Murray Bell (22)
• Sergeant Frederick George Bell (25)
• Flying Officer George Charles Bellman (20)
• Squadron Leader Ross Herbert Bertran (25)
• Sergeant Cecil James Berwick
• Pilot Officer Clifford Robertson Black (33)
• Flight Lieutenant William Andrew Black (23)
• Pilot Officer Kenneth Howard Blincoe (33)
• Sergeant Frank Arthur Boese (22)
• Corporal Arthur George Bond (37)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert Frederick Bonnick (18)
• Sergeant James Trueman Bostock (21)

See all 173 who died on 2 February →

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