Villers Bocage
30 June 1944 — Villers Bocage
- Date
- 30 June 1944
- Target
- Villers Bocage
- Force dispatched
- 266 aircraft
- Aircraft lost
- 13
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
70 airmen in this archive died on 30 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 Sergeant William Jeffery Adcock (25)
- Sergeant Albert Richard Albery (26)
- Sergeant Frank Norman Allen
- Sergeant Alfred Cyril Seymour Barker
- Flying Officer Walter Bennett Beatty (20)
- Flying Officer Ladimer Jacob Bernaski
- Flying Officer John Urban Billing (28)
- Sergeant Alexander Norman Bird (21)
- Squadron Leader John Crayley Blundell (25)
- Warrant Officer Class II Brice (20)
- Pilot Officer David Cornfoot Brown (20)
- Flying Officer Morley Luallan Cameron (22)
- Corporal Thomas Charles Chapman (24)
- Sergeant John Ronald Merwin Corman (24)
- Flight Lieutenant Neil Cornish (27)
- Flight Sergeant John Keith Cory (21)
- Flight Sergeant Albert Thomas Couch (19)
- Pilot Officer James Adrian Cunningham (29)
- Sergeant Arthur Ronald Earl (30)
- Flying Officer Terence Oliver Edwards (20)
- Lieutenant Elliot-wilson
- Pilot Officer John Edward Estell (20)
- Flight Sergeant Oswald Edward Ferguson (33)
- Pilot Officer Robert Louis Frankfurth (22)
See all 70 who died on 30 June →
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →