St Leu
4 July 1944 — St Leu
- Date
- 4 July 1944
- Target
- St Leu
- Force dispatched
- 16 aircraft
- Aircraft lost
- 27
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
115 airmen in this archive died on 4 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 George Baillie (23)
- Flying Officer William Gordon Baird (20)
- Pilot Officer Douglas Frank Jakes Baxter (25)
- Flying Officer Ronald Charles Ostend Beazer (29)
- Warrant Officer Sidney Bickell (22)
- Warrant Officer Class I James Bicknell
- Flight Sergeant John Norman Bond (25)
- Sergeant Earl Wesley Bookhout
- Flying Officer Harold Braathen
- Flight Lieutenant Laurence Roy Brady (28)
- Pilot Officer Hedley Royden Brewer (23)
- Captain Brink
- Flying Officer John Stanley Brown
- Pilot Officer John Alexander Buckham
- Flying Officer Frank Kenneth Burleigh (20)
- Flight Lieutenant Frank Lorne Burston (30)
- Flying Officer Glen Richard Burston (28)
- Flight Lieutenant Philip Richmond Burt
- Flying Officer Douglas Gordon Bush (21)
- Flying Officer Alfred Kyrwood Carter (31)
- Leading Aircraftman Donovan Joseph Chester (32)
- Flying Officer William Ronald Chowen (24)
- Warrant Officer Ivan Henry Clark (20)
- Flying Officer Arthur Albert Connor (22)
See all 115 who died on 4 July →
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →