Caen

Date

18 January 1943

Target

Caen, France

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

134 airmen in this archive died on 18 January 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 Kenneth Roy Aicken (25)
• Sergeant Stanley Allen (32)
• Sergeant Leslie Ernest Austin
• Sergeant George Arthur Axup (19)
• Flight Sergeant Joseph Bartley (27)
• Flight Sergeant Henry Craig Beebe (40)
• Sergeant John Bell
• Aircraftman 1st Class Jeffery Patrick Biggins (36)
• Flight Sergeant John Keith Bond (28)
• Sergeant Robert Douglas Bradbury (20)
• Sergeant John Charles Brittain (22)
• Sergeant John William Robinson Broadley
• Pilot Officer Wilfrid Gordon Burrows (25)
• Pilot Officer Kenneth Frank Butler (33)
• Sergeant Edward Cadden
• Sergeant Richard Calcutt
• Sergeant William Jesse Carter (19)
• Leading Aircraftman Charles Henry Cartwright (49)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Andrew Dougall Casey (21)
• Sergeant Frederick William Cater (27)
• Sergeant John George Bruce Chilvers (23)
• Leading Aircraftman Derek Robinson Clandillon (19)
• Leading Aircraftman John Anthony Clay (19)
• Leading Aircraftman Stanley Cliff (30)

See all 134 who died on 18 January →

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