Scholven

Date

1 July 1944

Command

Bomber Command

Target

Scholven

Force dispatched

14 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

68 airmen in this archive died on 1 July 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.

• Flight Sergeant William Jeffery Adcock (25)
• Sergeant Albert Richard Albery (26)
• Sergeant Frank Norman Allen
• Sergeant Alfred Cyril Seymour Barker
• Flying Officer Walter Bennett Beatty (20)
• Flying Officer Ladimer Jacob Bernaski
• Flying Officer John Urban Billing (28)
• Sergeant Alexander Norman Bird (21)
• Flying Officer Harlow Wilbur Bowker (21)
• Pilot Officer John William Bracken (20)
• Pilot Officer David Cornfoot Brown (20)
• Flight Lieutenant John Giblin Caddy (22)
• Corporal Thomas Charles Chapman (24)
• Warrant Officer William John Cooper (25)
• Sergeant John Ronald Merwin Corman (24)
• Flight Lieutenant Neil Cornish (27)
• Flight Sergeant John Keith Cory (21)
• Flight Sergeant Albert Thomas Couch (19)
• Pilot Officer James Adrian Cunningham (29)
• Flying Officer Thomas Albert Charles Daymond (20)
• Sergeant Arthur Ronald Earl (30)
• Flying Officer Terence Oliver Edwards (20)
• Pilot Officer John Edward Estell (20)
• Flying Officer Douglas John Evans (28)

See all 68 who died on 1 July →

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