Limoges

Date

8 February 1944

Command

Bomber Command

Target

Limoges

Force dispatched

39 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

81 airmen in this archive died on 8 February 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.

• Sergeant Ivor Morcombe Adams (19)
• Pilot Officer Arthur Robson Armitage (21)
• Flying Officer Thomas Wilfred Baptie (34)
• Sergeant Alan Peyman Bashforth (22)
• Flight Sergeant Walter Henry Boon
• Corporal Frank Vincent Browell (28)
• Flying Officer Gerald Dennis Carroll (21)
• Pilot Officer Joseph Lucien Anatole Champoux
• Aircraftman 2nd Class William Cherry
• Sergeant Ronald Denis Clement (22)
• Flight Sergeant Thomas Charles Climpson
• Leading Aircraftman Charles Cunningham Coles (28)
• Sergeant John Robert Colnet
• Flying Officer Geoffrey Arthur Austin Croskell (25)
• Sergeant Frederick William Samuel Cross (34)
• Sergeant Percy Robert Cross (25)
• Flying Officer Frank Cueto (27)
• Flying Officer John Downes (20)
• Flight Sergeant Percy Ellenbogen
• Sergeant Harold Findler (20)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Enrico Cecil Gerosa (40)
• Squadron Leader Maurice Weir Gibson (26)
• Sergeant Reginald Gordon Graves (21)
• Flight Sergeant Peter Grieve (27)

See all 81 who died on 8 February →

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