Abbeville

Date

30 July 1942

Target

Abbeville

Force dispatched

10 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

162 airmen in this archive died on 30 July 1942 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.

• Pilot Officer Mitchell George Abey (26)
• Pilot Officer John Allen
• Sergeant Arthur Allsopp (21)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Sidney Charles Andrews (20)
• Flight Sergeant Kenneth Johannes Aronson (21)
• Sergeant James Theodore Avedisian (25)
• Flight Lieutenant Herbert Evan Paul Barnes (37)
• Sergeant Maurice Alfred Barrett (22)
• Flying Officer Christopher Edward Thomas Bartram (28)
• Sergeant John Edgar St. Valentine L. Beasley (20)
• Sergeant Ronald Ernest Edward Bedford (20)
• Sergeant David Bell (20)
• Sergeant Clive Thomas Bingham (23)
• Flight Sergeant Mandel Bloomfield (21)
• Sergeant William Bluck (23)
• Warrant Officer Class II Stanley Bocking (22)
• Flying Officer William Dennis Bohl (20)
• Leading Aircraftman Bernard Thomas Bowden (33)
• Sergeant Cyril Alfred Bowes
• Corporal Edward Samuel John Brett (21)
• Sergeant Eric John Buckton (30)
• Flying Officer Sydney Charles Bushell (20)
• Sergeant Ronald George Peter Capham (19)
• Flight Sergeant Bernard Carroll

See all 162 who died on 30 July →

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