Courtrai

Date

26 March 1944

Target

Courtrai

Force dispatched

109 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

141 airmen in this archive died on 26 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)
• Flight Lieutenant Valentine Allport (28)
• Flight Sergeant James Charles Stone Arnold (29)
• Sergeant Thomas Arnold (21)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Gordon William Richard Atkins (28)
• Sergeant Clifford Bailey (23)
• Sergeant Thomas William Bailey (31)
• Sergeant George William Ball (20)
• Sergeant Charles Banks (20)
• Sergeant Ronald William Beresford (24)
• Flying Officer Richard Bernard Bestwick (30)
• Sergeant Ernest Arthur Bland (20)
• Sergeant Noel Herbert Block (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Charles Boyden (36)
• Leading Aircraftman Geoffrey Alexander Brindle (20)
• Leading Aircraftman Cyril William Hugh Brook (32)
• Sergeant Burton Orval Brophey (19)
• Sergeant Victor John Brown (42)
• Flying Officer Brian Dudley Burnell (30)
• Flying Officer Arthur Calvert (23)
• Flight Sergeant Leonard Arthur Chapman (22)
• Pilot Officer George Edward Chute
• Pilot Officer John Clark
• Flight Sergeant Albert Clarke

See all 141 who died on 26 March →

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