Louvain
20 March 1943 — Louvain
- Date
- 20 March 1943
- Command
- Bomber Command
- Target
- Louvain
- Force dispatched
- 13 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
71 airmen in this archive died on 20 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 Lorne Oliver Armstrong
- Sergeant James Fortune Bain (21)
- Sergeant Stephen Bell
- Leading Aircraftman James Jack William Bennett (26)
- Sergeant Richard William Brodie (24)
- Lieutenant Chaplin (19)
- Flight Sergeant Harold Clark (28)
- Flying Officer Gordon Sampson Clear (31)
- Flying Officer Arthur Norman Eldridge Cobb (23)
- Sergeant Frank Ronald Conway (22)
- Flight Sergeant Leonard John Coppins (22)
- Sergeant Thomas John Davey (25)
- Lieutenant Davies (23)
- Sergeant Hugo Henry Dotzenroth (22)
- Aircraftman 1st Class Victor Drinnan (22)
- Flying Officer Frederick Charles Elisha (26)
- Sergeant George Fisher
- Flight Sergeant William Dennis Keith Forbes (23)
- Leading Aircraftman Ivor Edward Fox (20)
- Sergeant Bryan Gordon Grosvenor Francis (21)
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Louis Benoit Fraser (20)
- Leading Aircraftman Alexander Garonski (28)
- Flight Sergeant Colin Alexander James Gordon (22)
- Sergeant Stanley Griffiths (22)
See all 71 who died on 20 March →
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →