Aulnoye

Date

25 March 1944

Target

Aulnoye, France

Force dispatched

192 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

267 airmen in this archive died on 25 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.

• Leading Aircraftman Arthur Frederick Allen (25)
• Pilot Officer Clifford Leslie Eldridge Allen (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Valentine Allport (28)
• Flight Sergeant James Charles Stone Arnold (29)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Gordon William Richard Atkins (28)
• Flight Sergeant Alfred Ayres (24)
• Sergeant Clifford Bailey (23)
• Sergeant Thomas William Bailey (31)
• Flight Lieutenant David Percy Bain (33)
• Sergeant William George Baker (20)
• Flying Officer John Moody Baldwin (23)
• Sergeant George William Ball (20)
• Sergeant Charles Banks (20)
• Flight Sergeant Victor William Bath (31)
• Leading Aircraftman Belfield
• Sergeant Ronald William Beresford (24)
• Flight Lieutenant Leonard Thomas Berrigan
• Flying Officer Richard Bernard Bestwick (30)
• Sergeant Thomas William Bint
• Sergeant Eric Birch
• Flying Officer John Powell Bird (23)
• Sergeant Ernest Arthur Bland (20)
• Sergeant Noel Herbert Block (21)
• Pilot Officer Joseph Edmond Yvon Bouchard (21)

See all 267 who died on 25 March →

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