Aulnoye

Date

17 June 1944

Target

Aulnoye, France

Force dispatched

317 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

133 airmen in this archive died on 17 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.

• Flying Officer David Kenneth Adair
• Air Mechanic James C. Adam (21)
• Pilot Officer Norman William Amstein (20)
• Flight Sergeant Gordon Arthur Armstrong (21)
• Pilot Officer Michael Baran (35)
• Pilot Officer Charles Trask Beech
• Leading Aircraftman Elmer Stephen Beingessner (21)
• Pilot Officer Harold William Bird (28)
• Flying Officer Glenn Hugh Blachford (27)
• Pilot Officer Robert Alexander Walton Blair (22)
• Pilot Officer Albert Edward Charles Boehmer (19)
• Warrant Officer Alexander Albert Braid (26)
• Flying Officer Harold Beverly Brett (27)
• Flight Lieutenant Roger Arthur Bromley (26)
• Pilot Officer Gilbert Clark Buglass (25)
• Flight Sergeant Alfred John Burns (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Douglas Harold Burr (28)
• Flying Officer Douglas Newlands Cameron (21)
• Flying Officer William Donald Carson (27)
• Warrant Officer Class II John Percy Clasper
• Flying Officer John William Collyer (31)
• Flight Sergeant Thomas Cooper (33)
• Pilot Officer Alan Irvine Crain (21)
• Pilot Officer Robert William Crane (24)

See all 133 who died on 17 June →

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