Saumur

Date

1 June 1944

Target

Saumur

Force dispatched

18 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

65 airmen in this archive died on 1 June 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.

• Leading Aircraftman Victor Edward Ahlskog (22)
• Warrant Officer William James Atkinson (21)
• Flying Officer Herbert Barker (32)
• Sergeant Gordon Leonard Barnard (21)
• Flight Sergeant Douglas Paul Bernhardt (19)
• Warrant Officer John Edward Bould (54)
• Flying Officer Herbert John Patrick Brennan (20)
• Pilot Officer Francis Samuel Brydon (22)
• Flying Officer Roger Byrne (26)
• Pilot Officer Allan Frederick Campbell (29)
• Flying Officer William Campbell
• Flying Officer Thomas Carnegie (21)
• Flying Officer William George Crawford
• Flight Sergeant Robert Trevor Dean (22)
• Flying Officer Thomas Hartley Dibb (29)
• Sergeant Donald William Robert Dixon (20)
• Pilot Officer Peter Charles Lewis Dombrain (21)
• Corporal Hugh Cecil Drummond (24)
• Pilot Officer John Charles Fardon (25)
• Sergeant Marchal Foston (28)
• Flying Officer John Gall (20)
• Flying Officer Joseph Patrick Gallagher (29)
• Sergeant Thomas Goldie (21)
• Pilot Officer Joseph Rolland Louis Nazaire Guillot

See all 65 who died on 1 June →

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