Boulogne

Date

6 May 1942

Target

Boulogne, France

Force dispatched

18 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

110 airmen in this archive died on 6 May 1942 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 Alan Fletcher Ada (28)
• Sergeant Wilfred Bertie Adams (29)
• Leading Aircraftman Harry Allen
• Corporal Basil Wilfred Anderson (25)
• Sergeant Ewart John Andrews
• Leading Aircraftman Kenneth John Arnott (23)
• Sergeant John Percy William Bandy (23)
• Leading Aircraftman Norman Robert Banvill (20)
• Sergeant Eric William Barfield (22)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Frank Edmond Bartlett (28)
• Flight Sergeant Harry Willan Batty (22)
• Flight Sergeant Donald Archibald Blue (22)
• Pilot Officer Frank Alan Bolton (27)
• Flight Sergeant Allan Charles Vincent Brophy (28)
• Sergeant Monty Holt Brothers (33)
• Leading Aircraftman Erwin Bruce Brown (25)
• Sergeant Thomas Lloyd Brown (24)
• Pilot Officer George Henry Anthony Butler (19)
• Sergeant Victor George Carter (29)
• Pilot Officer Kenneth Case (26)
• Sergeant Joseph Milton Lorraine Charbonneau (24)
• Sergeant Arthur Clitheroe (29)
• Flight Sergeant William Freeborne Colville (25)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Harold Henry Cordell (33)

See all 110 who died on 6 May →

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