Lyons

Date

29 March 1944

Target

Lyons

Force dispatched

19 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

104 airmen in this archive died on 29 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 Frederick Anderson
• Flight Sergeant Ronald William Beach (21)
• Flying Officer James Lloyd Bell (24)
• Flight Lieutenant Charles Boswell (37)
• Aircraftman 1st Class William Henry Bray (22)
• Flying Officer Anthony Boyre Brentnall (23)
• Flight Lieutenant Edward Gordon Brettell (29)
• Flying Officer John Stanley Briggs (22)
• Second Lieutenant Denys Brown (19)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Sydney Walter Percy Brown (39)
• Leading Aircraftman Robert Wallace Bruce (32)
• Flying Officer John Taylor Buchan (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Leslie George Bull
• Squadron Leader Roger Joyce Bushell (33)
• Flight Sergeant Keith Jervis Caladine (26)
• Flying Officer Duncan James Cameron (21)
• Squadron Leader James Catanach (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Arnold George Christensen (21)
• Flight Sergeant Thomas Hitchcock Clark (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Derrick Constan
• Wing Commander Walter Charles Stewart A. G. Cooper (30)
• Pilot Officer Patrick Devlin Asquith D'Arcy (30)
• Flight Sergeant Philip Edward Davies (23)
• Flight Lieutenant Bernard Dominic Davis (39)

See all 104 who died on 29 March →

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