Alen

Date

8 June 1944

Target

Alen

Force dispatched

483 aircraft

Aircraft lost

4

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

162 airmen in this archive died on 8 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.

• Squadron Leader William Brodie Anderson (30)
• 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)
• Flight Sergeant Joseph Colclough Barfoot (25)
• Flight Sergeant Robert Beard (22)
• Pilot Officer Harry Beazley (26)
• Leading Aircraftman Russell Lee Bonnell (19)
• Flying Officer Alwynn Lincoln Bonnett (24)
• Flight Sergeant Bryan Bowker (33)
• Flight Sergeant Gilbert Francis Brown (20)
• Pilot Officer Kenneth Edward Bryan (21)
• Lieutenant Burt (33)
• Pilot Officer Ernest William Bernard Carlson (21)
• Sergeant William John Cheshire (22)
• Flying Officer Frederick John Clubb (25)
• Flying Officer John Arthur Cole
• Warrant Officer Class II Charles Francis Coleman (30)
• Flying Officer Anthony Leonard Frederick Collingwood (24)
• Flight Sergeant Richard Graham Cottew (21)

See all 162 who died on 8 June →

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