Nucort
10 July 1944 — Nucort
- Date
- 10 July 1944
- Target
- Nucort
- Force dispatched
- 229 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
31 airmen in this archive died on 10 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 Walter Alfred Abrahams (48)
- Flight Sergeant John Tasman Andrew (34)
- Pilot Officer James Trevor Ayton (24)
- Flight Lieutenant John Douglas Best
- Sergeant George Douglas Britland (27)
- Pilot Officer Robert Clarke (bob) Buckberrough (22)
- Sergeant Charles Eric Bush (30)
- Flight Sergeant John Corrie Chenu (23)
- Flying Officer William Arthur Corley (29)
- Sergeant Francis George Grieve (19)
- Flight Lieutenant Thomas Hubert Oscar Hallihan
- Squadron Leader Mervyn Robert Bruce Ingram (22)
- Sergeant Neil John Kidney (21)
- Flying Officer Johnny Peter Kolomic (20)
- Flying Officer Robert Edward Lee (24)
- Major Maree
- Flying Officer Archibald Allisdair Matheson (29)
- Warrant Officer Class I Robert Kirk Moore (22)
- Air Mechanic Morton (17)
- Pilot Officer Murray Adamson Nagel (20)
- Flight Sergeant Maxwell Mason Roberts (25)
- Pilot Officer Ernest Anson Shaw (30)
- Sergeant Raymond Frank Simmons (22)
- Flying Officer Ernest Stanfield Simonson (27)
See all 31 who died on 10 July →
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →