Scholven

Date

3 July 1944

Target

Scholven

Force dispatched

24 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

54 airmen in this archive died on 3 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.

• Sergeant Paul Illtyd Anwyl (19)
• Warrant Officer Sidney Bickell (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Laurence Roy Brady (28)
• Captain Brink
• Flying Officer John Stanley Brown
• Flying Officer Frank Kenneth Burleigh (20)
• Flying Officer Arthur Albert Connor (22)
• Flying Officer Joseph William Henry Conway (26)
• Flight Lieutenant William John Francis Coote (29)
• Warrant Officer Rex Frederick Cottrell (21)
• Corporal Kevin Harold Crouch (23)
• Flying Officer John Raymond Daly (23)
• Flight Sergeant Patrick John Dunford (21)
• Warrant Officer Charles Thomas Fairweather (24)
• Pilot Officer Allan Thompson Field (25)
• Flying Officer Ernest Gatenby Fletcher (30)
• Flight Lieutenant Alexander William Fraser (29)
• Sergeant Theodore Gabryelski (21)
• Flight Sergeant Archie Oswald Gillett (23)
• Lieutenant Gishford
• Flight Sergeant John Charles Grant (22)
• Flying Officer Robert John Gray (26)
• Warrant Officer Launcelot Harrison (21)
• Flight Sergeant James William Hern (22)

See all 54 who died on 3 July →

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