Scholven

Date

6 July 1944

Target

Scholven

Force dispatched

37 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

79 airmen in this archive died on 6 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.

• Air Corporal Albert G. Ball (33)
• Flying Officer Robert Huston Bannihr (25)
• Flying Officer William Morgan Barbour (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Henry Hedley Bell (20)
• Squadron Leader William Walter Blessing (31)
• Flying Officer John William Blyth (23)
• Warrant Officer Warwick Brothers (22)
• Air Sergeant David Keith Brown (32)
• Pilot Officer Reginald Archibald Percival Brown (28)
• Flight Sergeant Ewen Eric Cameron (27)
• Warrant Officer Class II Henry Ramsay Carruthers (21)
• Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Anthony Conway Coldridge (22)
• Corporal Clarence Nathan Cole (22)
• Pilot Officer Ronald Thomas Collins (26)
• Corporal Robert Edwin Colwell (23)
• Pilot Officer John Costello (21)
• Warrant Officer Geoffrey James Custance (21)
• Flight Sergeant John Phillip Sinclair Dalton (21)
• Flight Sergeant Rae Charles Dalton (27)
• Flying Officer Jack Chaldecott Dalziel (22)
• Flying Officer Gordon Dumville (21)
• Sergeant Myles Edward Duquette (30)
• Warrant Officer Robert Barnes Flegg (25)
• Corporal Louis Charles Foris (27)

See all 79 who died on 6 July →

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