Le Havre

Date

14 June 1944

Target

Le Havre, France

Force dispatched

260 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

53 airmen in this archive died on 14 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.

• Pilot Officer Jack Thomas Battye (36)
• Lieutenant Begbie (26)
• Flying Officer Gordon Wilmer Besley
• Pilot Officer Leonard Douglas Bonnett (21)
• Flight Sergeant John Alexander Buckingham (22)
• Sergeant Patrick Cameron (22)
• Squadron Leader John William Carmichael (25)
• Flying Officer Robert William Clark-hall (23)
• Corporal John William Cliff (42)
• Flight Lieutenant Ian Bruce Croll
• Flying Officer Lorne Franklin Curry (27)
• Warrant Officer Class II Frederick Richard Dreger (27)
• Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Eric Evans (34)
• Warrant Officer Class I John Edward Ford (24)
• Flight Sergeant Magnus August Gislason (21)
• Pilot Officer Noel Goodridge (20)
• Warrant Officer Ian Frederick Gould (24)
• Squadron Leader John Grigor Mackenzie Grant (28)
• Flying Officer John Fraser Gray (23)
• Lieutenant Harding (25)
• Flight Sergeant Ronald Albert Harrip (21)
• Lieutenant Arthur Harrison (51)
• Pilot Officer Owen Peter Hughes (20)
• Warrant Officer Donald Bertram Kairton (22)

See all 53 who died on 14 June →

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