For

Date

23 July 1944

Target

For

Force dispatched

60 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

64 airmen in this archive died on 23 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.

• Pilot Officer Allan Daniel Aumell (21)
• Flight Sergeant Kenneth John Banfield (20)
• Sergeant Lyall Kenneth Beattie (20)
• Flying Officer Douglas Gordon Bennett
• Sergeant Walter Leonard Blunt (22)
• Pilot Officer William Edward Bowhay (24)
• Flight Sergeant Norman Brand (25)
• Sergeant John Frederick Burgess (20)
• Wireless Operator Daniel Eric Butters
• Second Lieutenant Stanley Hall Elphinstone Capstick-dale (22)
• Flight Sergeant Robert George Carrothers
• Sergeant Laurence Richmond Carter
• Second Lieutenant Leonard Cohen (23)
• Flight Sergeant Richard Martyn Cole
• Warrant Officer Allan Alfred Cook (22)
• Sergeant Roy Joseph Davies (21)
• Flight Sergeant Kenneth Welland Dewey
• Flight Sergeant Donald Franklin Dittmer (24)
• Pilot Officer Jack Dodd (24)
• Flying Officer Harley William Edwards Donald (22)
• Flying Officer Blake Gordon Foy
• Flight Sergeant Thomas Michael Galvon (21)
• Pilot Officer Norman Harrison Gerrand (21)
• Flying Officer Arthur Jacob Goldman

See all 64 who died on 23 July →

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