Clermont-ferrand

Date

10 March 1944

Target

Clermont-ferrand

Force dispatched

33 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

64 airmen in this archive died on 10 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.

• Sergeant David Simpson Allan (23)
• Flight Sergeant John Anderson (31)
• Pilot Officer Joseph Armstrong (28)
• Flight Sergeant John James Bailie (19)
• Leading Aircraftman Tom Banks (22)
• Warrant Officer Class I Laurence Sidney Barker (24)
• Flight Lieutenant Jack Beeson
• Flying Officer Albert Alan Boad
• Flight Sergeant Leslie Arthur Bolt (20)
• Flying Officer David Price Bowie (24)
• Pilot Officer Charles Carrol Bradley (30)
• Leading Aircraftman Alfred Henry William Brockman (33)
• Flying Officer Allan Edward Brown (22)
• Sergeant Thomas David Cant (23)
• Corporal Robert William Caunt (24)
• Sergeant Douglas Charles Clarke (20)
• Pilot Officer Francis Neil Depew (24)
• Corporal Norman Louis Erbacher (20)
• Leading Aircraftman William Barron Forsyth (19)
• Pilot Officer Reginald Carl Gaudet (23)
• Pilot Officer Charles Grant (29)
• Sergeant Francis John Harrison
• Sergeant John Hesketh (21)
• Sergeant Stanley Victor Hughes (37)

See all 64 who died on 10 March →

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