Boulogne
4 June 1942 — Boulogne
- Date
- 4 June 1942
- Target
- Boulogne, France
- Force dispatched
- 13 aircraft
- Aircraft lost
- 1
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
156 airmen in this archive died on 4 June 1942 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.
- Sergeant Robert James Andrew (21)
- Sergeant William Archer (30)
- Flying Officer Ronald Earle Archibald (21)
- Sergeant Frederick Ralph Arthan (22)
- Sergeant James William Ashby (29)
- Pilot Officer Eric Atkinson (22)
- Flight Sergeant Thomas Donald Atkinson (22)
- Sergeant Edwin Alfred Bailey (20)
- Pilot Officer Frank Joseph Barker (25)
- Flight Sergeant William James Barnes (21)
- Aircraftman 1st Class Robert Thomas Barr (27)
- Sergeant Claude Stanley Bassett (22)
- Sergeant John Battersby (29)
- Flight Lieutenant George Liddell Carruthers Beattie
- Flying Officer Harold Ernest Bedford (31)
- Sergeant Raymond William Bevand
- Sergeant Gilbert Frederick Cummings Bonner (24)
- Sergeant Robert Jack Brewer (20)
- Flight Sergeant Harold Cyril Frederick Broadbent (25)
- Sergeant Douglas Perry Brooks
- Corporal William David Bryant (32)
- Sergeant Robert Burges (22)
- Sergeant Harold Reuben Camfield
- Flight Sergeant John Wynne Chapman (29)
See all 156 who died on 4 June →
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →