Amiens

Date

16 March 1944

Target

Amiens, France

Force dispatched

130 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

221 airmen in this archive died on 16 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.

• Aircraftman 1st Class Alfred Tudor Addicott (42)
• Sergeant Alfred William Aiston (35)
• Sergeant Sydney John Arnold
• Flight Lieutenant Denys Alban Ashton (23)
• Pilot Officer Samuel Cunningham Atcheson (24)
• Flying Officer Charles Ernest Austin (25)
• Sergeant George Bagnall
• Leading Aircraftman John William Bainbridge
• Sergeant Charles Henry Baker (20)
• Flight Sergeant Ernest William Baldwin (23)
• Flight Sergeant William Arthur Ballard (30)
• Sergeant Ronald Osborne Barrs (19)
• Leading Aircraftman Herbert Arthur Bartley (29)
• Sergeant Henry Alfred Baxter (22)
• Sergeant David Arthur Bean (19)
• Sergeant Ernest Egerton Bebington (20)
• Pilot Officer Harold Copeland Bell (22)
• Sergeant Peter Edwin Bethell (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Guy Biggs (20)
• Sergeant Douglas Brigg Birbeck (21)
• Flight Sergeant Peter Frank Bishop
• Flying Officer Richard Bursleigh Black (23)
• Flight Lieutenant Dennis Arthur Bourne (23)
• Sergeant John Samuel Boyce (20)

See all 221 who died on 16 March →

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