Angoul

Date

20 March 1944

Target

Angoul

Force dispatched

12 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

90 airmen in this archive died on 20 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 George Augustus Alexander (23)
• Sergeant Kenneth William Anderson (20)
• Flying Officer Stanley Arthur Appleton (30)
• Second Lieutenant Ronald Stanley Austin (25)
• Flight Sergeant Jack Hume Bird (27)
• Sergeant Frederick Stephen Booth
• Sergeant Kenneth John Brettell
• Warrant Officer John Haig Broad (21)
• Flying Officer Norman Brockhouse (28)
• Flight Sergeant Gideon Leslie Burckett (32)
• Flying Officer Leonard Maurice Stewart Butler (21)
• Flying Officer Ronald Frank Calnan (25)
• Squadron Leader Oswald Terence Cantor (36)
• Warrant Officer Ronald Herbert Cook
• Flying Officer Alexander Valentine Cormack (29)
• Flying Officer Neil Watson Crabtree (20)
• Pilot Officer Wilfred Gordon Craig (19)
• Flying Officer Douglas Vernon Dalton (26)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Roy Davies (23)
• Lieutenant De Jager (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Raymond Frank Dunn
• Lieutenant Du Toit (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Douglas James Edwards (21)
• Sergeant Denis Roy Evans (20)

See all 90 who died on 20 March →

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