Tergnier

Date

8 March 1943

Target

Tergnier

Force dispatched

17 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

140 airmen in this archive died on 8 March 1943 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.

• Pilot Officer Walter Raymond Affleck (20)
• Leading Aircraftman Colin Neville Anderson (21)
• Warrant Officer Class II Anthony Arlen (30)
• Pilot Officer Kenneth Douglas Babington-browne (24)
• Flight Sergeant Arthur James Bagg (22)
• Squadron Leader Robert Beck Bagguley (29)
• Pilot Officer George Raymond Baker (22)
• Squadron Leader William Arthur Coleman Ball (26)
• Sergeant Leo Joseph Baribeau (25)
• Flight Sergeant Cedric N. Barrett
• Sergeant George Bell (25)
• Sergeant Eric Thomas Beney
• Sergeant Frank Bestwick
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Sidney Black (22)
• Flight Sergeant Jack William Blyth (23)
• Sergeant Norman Booth (18)
• Flying Officer Malcolm Bradshaw (28)
• Sergeant Arthur Briggs (22)
• Pilot Officer Ian James Duncan Brodie (27)
• Flying Officer John Hilton Brown (22)
• Corporal Robert Gordon Brown (24)
• Sergeant Frederick Miller Brum (20)
• Flight Sergeant Clifford Burkill (34)
• Leading Aircraftman John Dominic Burrell (19)

See all 140 who died on 8 March →

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