Oboe

Date

30 July 1944

Target

Oboe

Force dispatched

692 aircraft

Aircraft lost

4

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

86 airmen in this archive died on 30 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 Ian Mackenzie Angus (22)
• Flying Officer Joseph Leonidas Gerald Avon (23)
• Flying Officer Francis Henry Baggs (25)
• Sergeant Raymond Barnes (25)
• Sergeant Earl Hume Beatson (22)
• Flying Officer Jean Joseph Donnelly Belanger (20)
• Flight Sergeant Ray Kethel Bolger (19)
• Flying Officer William Stewart Bonell (25)
• Air Corporal Boraine (19)
• Flight Lieutenant Ian McKenzie Caldwell (28)
• Pilot Officer Robert William Burdell Carey (19)
• Pilot Officer Joseph Charles Lionel Carriere (21)
• Pilot Officer Mervyn Leslie Cecil (24)
• Flight Lieutenant Walter Evan Chitty (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Richard Towers Clarke (21)
• Corporal Philip Collinge (23)
• Pilot Officer William Morrow Conly (21)
• Sergeant George Lewis Copeland (23)
• Pilot Officer Charles Cusack (22)
• Flying Officer Ross Lloyd Cuzner (19)
• Sergeant Joseph Adolphe Maurice Dauplaise (21)
• Sergeant John Bruce Thornley Davenport (30)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Alexander Macgregor Dyke (29)
• Flying Officer Grant Elmer (23)

See all 86 who died on 30 July →

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