Tours

Date

18 February 1943

Target

Tours

Force dispatched

39 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

179 airmen in this archive died on 18 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 James Storey Aird (33)
• Sergeant Alexander Smith Aitchison (22)
• Sergeant Robert Allan (21)
• Flight Lieutenant William Armstrong (21)
• Sergeant Ivor William Arnold
• Flight Sergeant Harry Russell Bailey (21)
• Sergeant Howard Anthony Bastick (22)
• Sergeant Edward Percy George Bayliss (20)
• Sergeant Norman Clive Beer (28)
• Warrant Officer Class II George James Beresford
• Sergeant Thomas Alfred Berwick
• Leading Aircraftman Harold William Bishop (29)
• Sergeant Percy Blanch (28)
• Flying Officer Peter James Blanchard (21)
• Sergeant Derek Arnold Booth (17)
• Sergeant Arnold Harvey Borrett (25)
• Sergeant David Orr Bowie (22)
• Sergeant Frederick John Bray (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Patrick Brennan
• Pilot Officer Thomas Simpson Briggs (22)
• Flight Lieutenant John Alexander Bright (24)
• Flight Sergeant Frederick Alfred Budden (25)
• Warrant Officer Edward Trezise Bunt (34)
• Warrant Officer Class II Carleton Ernest Caldwell (20)

See all 179 who died on 18 February →

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