Le Mans

Date

9 March 1943

Command

Bomber Command

Target

Le Mans, France

Force dispatched

16 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

178 airmen in this archive died on 9 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.

• Flying Officer Kenneth Alexander Adam (31)
• Sergeant Thomas Watson Agnew (20)
• Flight Sergeant Alexander Patterson Morris Aitken (20)
• Sergeant George Allen (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)
• Squadron Leader Derrick Maxwell Barker (27)
• Flight Sergeant Cedric N. Barrett
• Sergeant Leopold Edgar Bastian (23)
• Flight Lieutenant Neville Thomas George Beacham (27)
• Sergeant George Bell (25)
• Sergeant Frank Bestwick
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Sidney Black (22)
• Sergeant Norman Booth (18)
• Sergeant Alfred Norman Boreham (32)
• Pilot Officer Lawrence Mattinson Bridger (22)
• Sergeant Arthur Briggs (22)
• Sergeant Herbert Brock (28)
• Leading Aircraftman Frank Lloyd Brooker (27)
• Flying Officer John Hilton Brown (22)
• Sergeant Victor Brown
• Sergeant William Browning (31)

See all 178 who died on 9 March →

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