Maisy

Date

4 June 1944

Target

Maisy

Force dispatched

259 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

24 airmen in this archive died on 4 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.

• Lieutenant Askew (22)
• Flying Officer Douglas Launcelot Blackmore Chapman (24)
• Flying Officer Sydney Ernest Clayton (30)
• Flight Sergeant John Malcolm Craig (20)
• Major Herbert De Montmorency
• Pilot Officer Allan Robert Duel (20)
• Pilot Officer Ronald Leslie Giles (28)
• Flight Lieutenant Elton Budd Hart (22)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Solemn (solly) Lavine (19)
• Flight Sergeant Gerald Beaumont McSweeney (26)
• Flight Sergeant Charles Patrick Nallen (20)
• Warrant Officer Clive Alexander Pickup (31)
• Flight Lieutenant Charles Gordon Gladstone Prior (31)
• Warrant Officer John Halstead Pugh (24)
• Flying Officer Jesse Bertram Reynolds (26)
• Lieutenant Robarts (21)
• Squadron Leader Henry Cecil Robinson (43)
• Flight Lieutenant John Walton Saville (34)
• Warrant Officer Theo Raymond Scarlett (31)
• Pilot Officer Donald Joseph Eugene Schmitz
• Leading Aircraftman Clifford Edwin Skeates (24)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Robert Linn Smith (19)
• Leading Aircraftman Daniel Loney Sweet (34)
• Warrant Officer Berry Lemington Ulrick (22)

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