Acquet

Date

24 July 1944

Target

Acquet

Force dispatched

40 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

113 airmen in this archive died on 24 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.

• Flying Officer Richard Gainford Askew (21)
• Pilot Officer Allan Daniel Aumell (21)
• Flight Sergeant Kenneth John Banfield (20)
• Flight Lieutenant Raymond Charles Banfield (24)
• Flight Sergeant Alan Osborne Beazley (19)
• Sergeant James Beech (22)
• Flying Officer Frederick Kenneth Beers (26)
• Flying Officer Douglas Gordon Bennett
• Flying Officer George Bishop (32)
• Flight Sergeant Norman Brand (25)
• Flight Sergeant Edward Maines Bryant (20)
• Flight Lieutenant Douglas Maxwell Bull (24)
• Flight Lieutenant Raymond Richard Burgess (27)
• Pilot Officer David Sinclair Campbell (31)
• Second Lieutenant Stanley Hall Elphinstone Capstick-dale (22)
• Flying Officer George Allan Cashion (23)
• Flight Sergeant Allen Leonard Cheatle (20)
• Flight Sergeant Richard Martyn Cole
• Flight Sergeant Patrick Joseph Conway (23)
• Warrant Officer Allan Alfred Cook (22)
• Pilot Officer William Denman Croft (20)
• Pilot Officer Nicholas Cushman
• Sergeant Roy Joseph Davies (21)
• Flight Sergeant Sydney Hartley Davies (23)

See all 113 who died on 24 July →

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