Saarbrücken
28 June 1944 — Saarbrücken
- Date
- 28 June 1944
- Target
- Saarbrücken, Germany
- Force dispatched
- 72 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
106 airmen in this archive died on 28 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 Burleigh Charles Acourt
- Flying Officer Robert John Andrews (21)
- Aircraftman 1st Class Bailey (22)
- Warrant Officer Class II Barrett (21)
- Flying Officer Raymond Neil Bartlett (30)
- Flight Lieutenant Bernard Keith Barty (36)
- Flight Sergeant Charles Howard Michael Beaudoin
- Aircraftman 2nd Class William George Bend (19)
- Flying Officer Frederick Harry Bryon (21)
- Lieutenant Bunce (31)
- Flight Sergeant James Russell Burgess (21)
- Flight Sergeant Nigel Douglas Campbell (21)
- Sergeant William Howard Clark (22)
- Flying Officer Edward Francis Collaery (29)
- Pilot Officer David Neville Cotton (22)
- Sergeant Jonathan Cuffey (23)
- Pilot Officer Robert Dunlop Davidson (21)
- Flying Officer Kenneth Davis (27)
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Joseph Lucien Edgar Denault (25)
- Second Lieutenant Hendrik F. D. De Wet
- Flying Officer Robert Harry Dickinson (21)
- Lieutenant Dodd
- Flight Sergeant James Baird Duell (23)
- Sergeant Leslie Walter Dunne (27)
See all 106 who died on 28 June →
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →