Le Creusot

Date

19 June 1943

Target

Le Creusot, France

Force dispatched

290 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

98 airmen in this archive died on 19 June 1943 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.

• Corporal Harry William Bailey (32)
• Leading Aircraftman Hugh Bannatyne (35)
• Pilot Officer Thomas Edward Barker (27)
• Lieutenant Henry Baskerville-atkinson (36)
• Leading Aircraftman Alfred Edwin Beavan (24)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Robert Allan Bell (22)
• Flight Sergeant Victor Harold Benfield (24)
• Flying Officer Clifford Marvin Bingham (22)
• Sergeant John Blackie (20)
• Leading Aircraftman Stephan Blackwell
• Sergeant Brown
• Flying Officer Derek Frank Paston Brown (23)
• Pilot Officer James Moyes Brown (22)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class John Brown (30)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Charles Horace Gordon Chick (19)
• Sergeant Desmond Henry Clinch
• Pilot Officer George Daykin Cockbone (26)
• Flight Sergeant Alan Ronald Cook (25)
• Flight Sergeant William Cooke (21)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Joseph Ridley Cousin
• Pilot Officer Noel George Cromie (22)
• Sergeant Francis Danby (26)
• Pilot Officer James Denholm (21)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Oliver Richard Edward Dormon (22)

See all 98 who died on 19 June →

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