Ach

Date

7 June 1944

Target

Ach

Force dispatched

337 aircraft

Aircraft lost

2

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

196 airmen in this archive died on 7 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.

• Flying Officer Ethan Allen (25)
• Squadron Leader William Brodie Anderson (30)
• Sergeant Kenneth Raymond Ansell (22)
• Flight Sergeant James Edward Armstrong (22)
• Pilot Officer Algot Leon Arnell (21)
• Pilot Officer John Peter Artyniuk (23)
• Sergeant William Wallington Astles
• Flight Sergeant Louis Michael Gabriel Baker (28)
• Flight Sergeant Tom Bamford (24)
• Warrant Officer Class I William James Banner (24)
• Warrant Officer Bruce George Barton (21)
• Flight Sergeant Robert Beard (22)
• Pilot Officer Harry Beazley (26)
• Flying Officer Douglas Gordon Biggs
• Flight Sergeant Bryan Bowker (33)
• Flying Officer Francis Allan Boyce
• Corporal Harry Wilfred Boyd (23)
• Flying Officer William Stanley Brennan (32)
• Flight Sergeant Gilbert Francis Brown (20)
• Flight Lieutenant Wallace Hilton Brown (36)
• Pilot Officer Kenneth Edward Bryan (21)
• Flying Officer Ronald Henry Buchan-hepburn (21)
• Flying Officer Alexander Donaldson Callander (21)
• Sergeant Marshall William Card (23)

See all 196 who died on 7 June →

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