St Leu

Date

7 July 1944

Target

St Leu

Force dispatched

106 aircraft

Aircraft lost

4

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

86 airmen in this archive died on 7 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.

• Warrant Officer Hilton Craig Bell (22)
• Pilot Officer James Douglas Bishop
• Squadron Leader William Walter Blessing (31)
• Flying Officer John William Blyth (23)
• Pilot Officer Kenneth Arthur Boyce (23)
• Warrant Officer Warwick Brothers (22)
• Pilot Officer Hugh Thomas Blakeley Burgess (23)
• Corporal Reginald Edward Stanley Butler
• Warrant Officer Class II Henry Ramsay Carruthers (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Henry Joseph Cleary (25)
• Flight Sergeant Verne Edward Cockroft (24)
• Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Anthony Conway Coldridge (22)
• Pilot Officer Ronald Thomas Collins (26)
• Corporal Robert Edwin Colwell (23)
• Flying Officer Arthur George Corck (20)
• Flight Sergeant Horace Andrew Cummins (28)
• Warrant Officer Geoffrey James Custance (21)
• Flight Sergeant John Phillip Sinclair Dalton (21)
• Flight Sergeant Rae Charles Dalton (27)
• Flight Sergeant Dennis Albert Davies (24)
• Lieutenant Francois Meyer Du Toit (19)
• Flying Officer Douglas Elphick (25)
• Warrant Officer Robert Barnes Flegg (25)
• Flying Officer Norman Vincent Gautschi (26)

See all 86 who died on 7 July →

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