France

Date

15 March 1944

Target

France

Force dispatched

863 aircraft

Aircraft lost

1

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

352 airmen in this archive died on 15 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 Mervyn Adder (21)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Alfred Tudor Addicott (42)
• Sergeant Alfred William Aiston (35)
• Sergeant Norman Sinclair Allan
• Sergeant John Neville Andrew (22)
• Flight Sergeant Phillip Heriot Armstrong
• Sergeant Sydney John Arnold
• Flight Sergeant Cecil Glen Arthur (20)
• Flight Lieutenant Denys Alban Ashton (23)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Hugh Asken (47)
• Pilot Officer Samuel Cunningham Atcheson (24)
• Flying Officer Charles Ernest Austin (25)
• Sergeant George Bagnall
• Sergeant Charles Henry Baker (20)
• Flight Sergeant Kenneth Herbert Ball (23)
• Flight Sergeant William Arthur Ballard (30)
• Pilot Officer Lloyd Roger Barker (22)
• Sergeant Reginald Dennis Barlow
• Sergeant Roy Stanley Barratt (19)
• Pilot Officer Archibald Macarthur Barrowman
• Leading Aircraftman Herbert Arthur Bartley (29)
• Sergeant Henry Alfred Baxter (22)
• Sergeant David Arthur Bean (19)
• Sergeant Ernest Egerton Bebington (20)

See all 352 who died on 15 March →

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