The Bellincourt Renault Factory
3 March 1942 — The Bellincourt Renault Factory
- Date
- 3 March 1942
- Target
- The Bellincourt Renault Factory
- Force dispatched
- 235 aircraft
- Aircraft lost
- 1
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
43 airmen in this archive died on 3 March 1942 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 Adrian Richard Algar (27)
- Aircraftman 1st Class Arthur James Badham
- Sergeant Ian Munro Barwick (26)
- Sergeant Frantisek Binder (27)
- Sergeant Kenneth William Brett (26)
- Sergeant William Ian Cass (20)
- Leading Aircraftman John Lionel Clarke (28)
- Sergeant William Hodgson Coppin (21)
- Second Lieutenant Andrew Craigie (21)
- Sergeant Karel Danihelka
- Flight Sergeant Henry Ellerby (23)
- Flight Lieutenant Kenneth James Erwin (23)
- Sergeant William Ronald Gregory (18)
- Sergeant Vladimir Hanzl
- Flying Officer Cecil William Nepean Harris (28)
- Sergeant Kenneth Bertram Harvey (20)
- Flying Officer John Alfred Harvie (23)
- Sergeant Bohuslav Hradil (26)
- Sergeant Frantisek Janca
- Sergeant Mark Richard Korbosky (28)
- Sergeant Imrich Kormanovic (40)
- Sergeant Jan Kotrch (24)
- Flight Sergeant Melville Spencer Lee (21)
- Warrant Officer Frederick Richard Lillico
See all 43 who died on 3 March →
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →