Albert

Date

2 March 1944

Command

Bomber Command

Target

Albert

Force dispatched

44 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

109 airmen in this archive died on 2 March 1944 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 Frederick Aiston (23)
• Flight Sergeant James Victor Avery (22)
• Flying Officer William James Bailey
• Flight Sergeant Robert Minton Baker (23)
• Sergeant Donald Edward Barton (23)
• Flight Sergeant Ronald Barnard Basford (20)
• Sergeant Richard Bell
• Pilot Officer Joseph Herve Theodore R. Bertrand (19)
• Flight Sergeant Leonard Eric Bignall (22)
• Flying Officer William Egbert Trevor Bladen (22)
• Sergeant Norman Philip Bond (19)
• Flight Lieutenant James Harold Botham (23)
• Pilot Officer Elbert Cyril Bousquet (19)
• Sergeant Alan Bowker (20)
• Flying Officer Walter Dawson Carl Boyd (24)
• Sergeant Patrick Brosnan (24)
• Flying Officer Peter Norman Brown
• Pilot Officer Robert George Calder (26)
• Warrant Officer Class II John Caldwell Calhoun (24)
• Sergeant James McLeod Campbell
• Warrant Officer Class II William Warren Campbell (33)
• Corporal Jack Manning Carter (28)
• Second Lieutenant Cockburn (19)
• Sergeant Charles Edward Cote (22)

See all 109 who died on 2 March →

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