Silesia
18 July 1944 — Silesia
- Date
- 18 July 1944
- Target
- Silesia
- Force dispatched
- 194 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
138 airmen in this archive died on 18 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 Colin Frederick Allen (20)
- Pilot Officer Percy Leonard Alp (30)
- Flying Officer William David Appleyard (22)
- Pilot Officer Gordon Howard Atkinson (20)
- Flight Lieutenant George Leonard Barker (30)
- Pilot Officer Wilfred Stanley Barnard (20)
- Flight Sergeant Gordon Edwin Beckhouse (20)
- Flying Officer David Beharrie (27)
- Flight Sergeant William Sidney Atkinson Birks (21)
- Flight Sergeant Edward Laurence Bishop (26)
- Flying Officer Robert Wallace Blair (19)
- Pilot Officer Joseph Arthur Blasko (19)
- Pilot Officer Norman Alfred Boucher (28)
- Flight Sergeant John Charles Broughton Boydell (19)
- Flight Sergeant Frederick George Brezina (26)
- Flying Officer Aubrey Ginders Britten
- Flight Sergeant Edgar Barwood Brown (24)
- Squadron Leader Charles Gordon Bull
- Captain Burger
- Sergeant Ronald Frank Burgess (22)
- Pilot Officer Robert Elwood Burton
- Flying Officer John Francis Bush (26)
- Sergeant James Alexander Calder (21)
- Flight Sergeant William Alexander Cameron (23)
See all 138 who died on 18 July →
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →