Flers

Date

9 June 1944

Target

Flers

Force dispatched

401 aircraft

Aircraft lost

6

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

63 airmen in this archive died on 9 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.

• Flight Lieutenant Thomas Robert Bowden Anderson (23)
• Flight Sergeant John Alfred Anderton
• Flight Sergeant Joseph Colclough Barfoot (25)
• Pilot Officer William John Barr (20)
• Pilot Officer Fred Beales (20)
• Leading Aircraftman Russell Lee Bonnell (19)
• Flying Officer Alwynn Lincoln Bonnett (24)
• Flying Officer Harry Rowan Briggs (24)
• Lieutenant Burt (33)
• Sergeant William Denmark Cairns (23)
• Flight Sergeant Charles Clement (22)
• Flying Officer Frederick John Clubb (25)
• Warrant Officer Class II Charles Francis Coleman (30)
• Flying Officer Anthony Leonard Frederick Collingwood (24)
• Flight Sergeant Richard Graham Cottew (21)
• Flying Officer Gilbert Daniel (22)
• Pilot Officer John Cecil Davies (23)
• Pilot Officer Russel Edward Dennis
• Air Mechanic Schalk W. Du Plessis (42)
• Sergeant Charles Mervyn Edwards (20)
• Flying Officer John Ellyatt (27)
• Pilot Officer Morris Soren Forsberg (22)
• Warrant Officer John Carr Francis (22)
• Flying Officer Kenneth William Gale (24)

See all 63 who died on 9 June →

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