Culmont

Date

12 July 1944

Target

Culmont

Force dispatched

230 aircraft

Aircraft lost

10

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

64 airmen in this archive died on 12 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 Neville Abbott (29)
• Major Hugh Ralph Lawrence Alder (25)
• Warrant Officer Class I Annandale
• Lieutenant Armstrong (19)
• Flying Officer John Frederick Armstrong (21)
• Pilot Officer Walter Edward Atkinson (24)
• Flying Officer Harold Ivo McKensey Baldock (26)
• Lieutenant Bamber (25)
• Lieutenant Colonel Barnby (29)
• Flight Lieutenant Douglas Stephen Barnes (28)
• Warrant Officer Class II Bezuidenhout (23)
• Lieutenant Blanc (28)
• Flying Officer Walter Boocock (29)
• Leading Aircraftman John McDowell Booth (27)
• Flight Sergeant Donald George Wentworth Brown (24)
• Sergeant Jeffrey Thomas Ernest Chalk (22)
• Flight Sergeant John William Richard Cox
• Pilot Officer Edward George Crawley (28)
• Flight Sergeant Donald James Davey (24)
• Flying Officer Norman Arthur Davies
• Pilot Officer Ernest Albert Wesley Dawson
• Warrant Officer Class I De Douallier
• Flying Officer Morris Charles Eckhold (26)
• Warrant Officer Class II Empey (20)

See all 64 who died on 12 July →

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