Marignane

Date

9 March 1944

Target

Marignane

Force dispatched

52 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

54 airmen in this archive died on 9 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.

• Pilot Officer Joseph Armstrong (28)
• Leading Aircraftman Tom Banks (22)
• Flying Officer William Beckensall (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Jack Beeson
• Flight Lieutenant Sylvester Bendixson
• Wing Commander Richard James Bennell (31)
• Flying Officer Albert Alan Boad
• Flight Sergeant Leslie Arthur Bolt (20)
• Flying Officer David Price Bowie (24)
• Flying Officer Stanley Burton
• Sergeant Thomas David Cant (23)
• Corporal Robert William Caunt (24)
• Lieutenant Jan Abraham Cronje (23)
• Corporal Norman Louis Erbacher (20)
• Sergeant Alexander Forsyth
• Flying Officer John Leslie Gilbert (23)
• Flying Officer William Delmar Gilbert (31)
• Sergeant Douglas Robert William Hall (29)
• Flying Officer Peter Harrison (22)
• Sergeant John Hesketh (21)
• Sergeant Stanley Victor Hughes (37)
• Sergeant Frederick Joseph Huxen
• Squadron Leader Terence Sydney Raymond King (33)
• Leading Aircraftman Eric John Kirkman (19)

See all 54 who died on 9 March →

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