Tours

Date

15 February 1943

Target

Tours

Force dispatched

35 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

96 airmen in this archive died on 15 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.

• Flying Officer Derek Arthur Allen (23)
• Sergeant Jack Andrew (20)
• Flight Sergeant Frank Stanley Barnes (31)
• Sergeant Henry George Bone (29)
• Leading Aircraftman Leslie Bool (35)
• Sergeant Eric Brook (26)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Clarence Fred Brown
• Flight Lieutenant Orlan Roderick Brown
• Flying Officer James Stenhouse Brydon (29)
• Flying Officer Ernest John Butler (24)
• Sergeant Richard Foote Cairns (24)
• Sergeant Douglas Campbell (24)
• Sergeant Stanley Richard Cann
• Leading Aircraftman John Carden (22)
• Sergeant Douglas Eric Cardwell (23)
• Flying Officer Edward Henry Cave-browne (20)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Sidney John William Clark (21)
• Flying Officer Stuart McIntyre Connacher (25)
• Flying Officer Bernard Thomas Connell (25)
• Sergeant Edward Couldwell (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Jack Cresswell (22)
• Sergeant John Ernest Norman Croft (24)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Kenneth Drage
• Flying Officer Richard Brian Dunsmuir (22)

See all 96 who died on 15 February →

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