French

Date

23 March 1943

Target

French

Force dispatched

45 aircraft

Aircraft lost

2

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

105 airmen in this archive died on 23 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.

• Warrant Officer Class II William James Arnold (20)
• Flying Officer Ronald Arthur Henry Ayles
• Flight Sergeant Alexander John Baillie (24)
• Flying Officer Victor Norman Ballard (25)
• Flight Sergeant Norman Barker (25)
• Pilot Officer Arthur Dennis Bebbington (26)
• Sergeant Frederick William Boustead (29)
• Flying Officer Albert Henry Bowler
• Corporal William John Brewer
• Leading Aircraftman Lloyd Edward Briggs (29)
• Corporal William John Burrows (41)
• Sergeant Lloyd George Burry
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Donald Laurence Cahill (18)
• Warrant Officer Class II Robert Franklin Cavers (26)
• Flying Officer Clarke Munro Chambers
• Pilot Officer George Cojocar
• Leading Aircraftman Colin Thomas Cooper (19)
• Warrant Officer Class II Clarence Lummis Copping (25)
• Sergeant Basil John France Crook (21)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class John Thomas Desmond Cummins (19)
• Warrant Officer Class II Wilfred John Dawson (27)
• Leading Aircraftman Denis Gerard Degryse (22)
• Flying Officer Raymond Gustave Hector De Hasse
• Pilot Officer Albert Raymond Dicker (20)

See all 105 who died on 23 March →

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