Bristillerie
4 January 1944 — Bristillerie
- Date
- 4 January 1944
- Target
- Bristillerie
- Force dispatched
- 80 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
87 airmen in this archive died on 4 January 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.
- Aircraftman 1st Class Armour (22)
- Flight Sergeant Hugh Baird (21)
- Sergeant Edward Stanley Barlow (20)
- Flight Sergeant Maxwell Logan Bartley (23)
- Sergeant Nigel Ivor Bates
- Flight Sergeant Henry William Arthur Blackwood (21)
- Sergeant Robert Edward Blair (19)
- Sergeant James Joseph Body (23)
- Corporal James Brown (26)
- Sergeant David Mason Campbell (22)
- Flying Officer William Freeman Campbell (22)
- Sergeant Ernest Clayton (21)
- Flight Sergeant Walter Downes Cock (20)
- Flight Sergeant Charles Thomas Cole (21)
- Sergeant Desmond Arthur Cooper (24)
- Aircraftman 1st Class Geoffrey Cornish (20)
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Lawson Coulter (23)
- Corporal Roy Stuart Crate (23)
- Flying Officer Georges Joseph Chislain Daix
- Flight Sergeant Carol James Daley (22)
- Sergeant James Davidson
- Squadron Leader William Douglas Bow Symington Davie (25)
- Sergeant Leonard Dowse (22)
- Sergeant Thomas William Ewen
See all 87 who died on 4 January →
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →