St Philibert
16 July 1944 — St Philibert
- Date
- 16 July 1944
- Target
- St Philibert
- Force dispatched
- 33 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
57 airmen in this archive died on 16 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)
- Warrant Officer Benjamin George Blatch (21)
- Pilot Officer Michael James Wallace Cantwell (18)
- 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
- Lieutenant Dutton (27)
- Flying Officer James Alwyn Ewen (25)
- Lieutenant Ferreira
- Sergeant Richard George Foster (22)
- Warrant Officer Class I Joseph Wilfred Romeo Fournier (27)
- Squadron Leader Walter William Beresford Gale (24)
- Flight Lieutenant Desmond Edward James Gardiner (41)
- Pilot Officer Frederick George Graham (21)
- Lieutenant Grobler
- Flying Officer Dermot John Hegarty (23)
- Sergeant Herbert Dennis Hoare
- Warrant Officer William Hobman (28)
- Leading Aircraftman John Sinclair Holmes (22)
- Flight Sergeant Robert Owen Gregory Ives (21)
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Samuel Charles Jackson (30)
- Flight Sergeant Arthur Hedley Jenkins (20)
See all 57 who died on 16 July →
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →