Donges

Date

23 July 1944

Target

Donges

Force dispatched

119 aircraft

Aircraft lost

2

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) →