Ferme

Date

3 June 1944

Target

Ferme

Force dispatched

57 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

66 airmen in this archive died on 3 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.

• Warrant Officer John Andrew Ashdown (24)
• Warrant Officer Max Milson Bettington (22)
• Lieutenant Denis Oswald Bilse (21)
• Flying Officer Bruce Graham Black (22)
• Lieutenant Campbell (22)
• Flying Officer William Grant Cantlay (25)
• Flight Sergeant Harry Cosgreave Caswell (28)
• Pilot Officer George William Chambers (21)
• Flight Sergeant George Ernest Chaplin (22)
• Flying Officer Cyril Branston Cohen
• Squadron Leader George Edwin Coldrey (26)
• Flight Sergeant Kenneth George Coleman (23)
• Flight Sergeant John Malcolm Craig (20)
• Flying Officer Robert Duncan Crone (21)
• Major Herbert De Montmorency
• Flight Sergeant Bryan James Dowling (29)
• Captain Van Duckitt (25)
• Flying Officer Jack Ellsworth Dye (19)
• Flying Officer Robert Alexander Faulafer (24)
• Warrant Officer Charles Faust (21)
• Corporal John Arthur Forknall (23)
• Lieutenant Forsyth (27)
• Flying Officer John Kinnaird Greenway
• Flight Sergeant Vernon Nelson Hansen (21)

See all 66 who died on 3 June →

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