Fouillard

Date

15 June 1944

Target

Fouillard

Force dispatched

227 aircraft

Aircraft lost

7

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

79 airmen in this archive died on 15 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.

• Sergeant George McCrimmon Anderson (29)
• Lieutenant W. McG. M. Auld (30)
• Flight Sergeant Roland Desmond Ernest Betley (22)
• Pilot Officer Leonard Douglas Bonnett (21)
• Lieutenant Borgen (28)
• Corporal Ralph Poston Brady (31)
• Pilot Officer Ronald Douglas Brooks (31)
• Flight Sergeant John Alexander Buckingham (22)
• Flying Officer Robert William Clark-hall (23)
• Corporal John William Cliff (42)
• Warrant Officer Class I George Richard Coathup
• Flight Sergeant Peter Jackson Cook (21)
• Pilot Officer Albert Digby Cooper (25)
• Flight Lieutenant Ian Bruce Croll
• Flying Officer Lorne Franklin Curry (27)
• Pilot Officer Daniel George Davis (27)
• Warrant Officer Class I Dawson (19)
• Warrant Officer John Devlin (23)
• Flying Officer Frederick Allen Dixon
• Pilot Officer Ronald Oberlin Ellis (20)
• Warrant Officer Class I John Edward Ford (24)
• Flying Officer Austin Gordon Gamsby (30)
• Sergeant Edward George Gilliatt (22)
• Pilot Officer Noel Goodridge (20)

See all 79 who died on 15 June →

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