Nucort

Date

15 July 1944

Target

Nucort

Force dispatched

53 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

91 airmen in this archive died on 15 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 Lieutenant Walter Colin Ahrens (21)
• Flight Sergeant Paul Andersen (20)
• Lieutenant Andrews (23)
• Corporal David Leighton Bartlett (21)
• Warrant Officer Benjamin George Blatch (21)
• Warrant Officer Douglas Leopold Burke (20)
• Pilot Officer Michael James Wallace Cantwell (18)
• Flight Lieutenant John Cowper Cheetham (35)
• Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Clegg (24)
• Wing Commander Patrick Edward Geoffrey G. Connolly (30)
• Leading Aircraftman Albert Royal Felken Cook (24)
• Pilot Officer James Foxall Crossley (24)
• Warrant Officer Lewis Clement De Garis (22)
• Warrant Officer Class I Deitch
• Flying Officer Albert Antoine Desilets (23)
• Flight Sergeant Kevin Leslie Thomas Dickerson (20)
• Flying Officer Colin Campbell Duncan (20)
• Lieutenant Dutton (27)
• Flying Officer Allan Grant Echlin (25)
• Flight Sergeant Harry William Evans (23)
• Flying Officer James Alwyn Ewen (25)
• Lieutenant Ferreira
• Flying Officer Alexander Forsyth
• Warrant Officer Class I Joseph Wilfred Romeo Fournier (27)

See all 91 who died on 15 July →

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