Wizernes

Date

20 June 1944

Target

Wizernes, France

Force dispatched

20 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

25 airmen in this archive died on 20 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 Cyril Edgar Barlow (29)
• Lieutenant Chisholm (33)
• Squadron Leader John Greville Clouston (25)
• Flying Officer Harry Elmore Fenwick (23)
• Warrant Officer George Rubin Franklin (24)
• Corporal Murray Alexander Gillon (24)
• Warrant Officer Class II Kenneth Andrew Gilroy (22)
• Warrant Officer William Griffiths
• Flying Officer Leslie Darcy Irwin (26)
• Flying Officer Howard Kitchener Jones (30)
• Flying Officer Thomas Kelley (22)
• Flying Officer William Kirk (25)
• Warrant Officer Class I Cecil Ray Locke (27)
• Sergeant Denis McAlhone (23)
• Pilot Officer Donald Wayne McRae
• Pilot Officer Thomas Gordon Nettleton (20)
• Leading Aircraftman Sidney Robert Norris (19)
• Flight Lieutenant Stanley Deryck Osborn (23)
• Leading Aircraftman Graham Stanley Payne (19)
• Pilot Officer James Kelso Stenhouse (20)
• Sergeant William James Thomson (20)
• Flying Officer Ernest Fleetwood Street Till (34)
• Flight Lieutenant Ernest Belton Tustin (54)
• Leading Aircraftman Leonard Ernest Montrose Vickery

See all 25 who died on 20 June →

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