Joigny La
31 July 1944 — Joigny La
- Date
- 31 July 1944
- Target
- Joigny La
- Force dispatched
- 202 aircraft
- Aircraft lost
- 5
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
54 airmen in this archive died on 31 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 Joseph Leonidas Gerald Avon (23)
- Air Corporal Boraine (19)
- Flight Lieutenant Ian McKenzie Caldwell (28)
- Flying Officer William Ronald Campbell (22)
- Pilot Officer Joseph Charles Lionel Carriere (21)
- Pilot Officer John Duncan Clark (23)
- Flight Lieutenant Richard Towers Clarke (21)
- Corporal Philip Collinge (23)
- Sergeant George Lewis Copeland (23)
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Alexander Macgregor Dyke (29)
- Flying Officer Francis John Englefield (22)
- Sergeant Donald Fraser Enright
- Flight Lieutenant Odin John Eskil (27)
- Leading Aircraftman Lawrence Lewis Gaspard (22)
- Pilot Officer Hugh Boyd Gilmore (20)
- Lieutenant John Henry Stevenson Glenny (20)
- Flying Officer John Ernest (jack) Gloeckler (26)
- Pilot Officer John Howard Green (19)
- Flying Officer Edward Keith Hender (33)
- Pilot Officer Lachlan Douglas Hinten (21)
- Air Corporal Hosmer (28)
- Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas Harry Houghton (19)
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Ingham
- Pilot Officer John Roy Irish (24)
See all 54 who died on 31 July →
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →