Ach

Date

10 June 1944

Target

Ach

Force dispatched

432 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

86 airmen in this archive died on 10 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.

• Corporal Bernard Victor Abe (42)
• Flight Sergeant Frank Percy Adams (24)
• Flight Lieutenant Thomas Robert Bowden Anderson (23)
• Flight Sergeant John Alfred Anderton
• Pilot Officer Walter Lynwood Arksey (21)
• Flying Officer Alexander Thomas Armstrong
• Flight Lieutenant Reginald Geoffrey Ash (26)
• Pilot Officer William John Barr (20)
• Pilot Officer Fred Beales (20)
• Flying Officer Dudley Victor Black (22)
• Flight Sergeant Stanley Kevin Black (21)
• Pilot Officer Lester Lascelles Bonisch (21)
• Flying Officer Neville William Barton Brady (21)
• Flying Officer Harry Rowan Briggs (24)
• Pilot Officer Thomas Alfred Burnett (28)
• Warrant Officer Harold Burnside (20)
• Sergeant William Denmark Cairns (23)
• Flight Lieutenant Richard Valentine Carroll (33)
• Flying Officer Trevor Alan Mackenzie Christie
• Pilot Officer William Joseph Chudzik (21)
• Flight Sergeant Charles Clement (22)
• Pilot Officer Alfred John Collett
• Lieutenant Robert Alexander Cumming (22)
• Pilot Officer Joseph Jacques Guy Dagenais (20)

See all 86 who died on 10 June →

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