Boulogne

Date

17 May 1942

Target

Boulogne, France

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

110 airmen in this archive died on 17 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 William Edwin Ackerman (22)
• Sergeant Stanley Mansel Angelo (19)
• Flying Officer Rodney Bainbridge Archer (24)
• Sergeant James Henry Baillie
• Pilot Officer James Arthur Baraw (26)
• Flying Officer Eliot Ralph Barnfather (27)
• Sergeant Ernest Bates
• Sergeant Matthew Bates
• Sergeant Harold Boardman (30)
• Flight Lieutenant Neville George Richardson Booth (25)
• Sergeant Miroslav Borkovec
• Flight Sergeant William Columba Boyle (26)
• Sergeant Cyril Brown (19)
• Sergeant John Owen Butcher (21)
• Sergeant Francis Norman Butterworth (26)
• Sergeant John Bernard Butterworth (22)
• Sergeant Barry Cain (19)
• Flight Sergeant Robert Dyce Cameron (25)
• Pilot Officer Robert William Charters
• Sergeant Gordon Clelland (21)
• Corporal Thomas Ashall Clifford (44)
• Pilot Officer William Ernest Coates (22)
• Pilot Officer Gordon Willard Coldwell (25)
• Sergeant Stanley Alan Collins (27)

See all 110 who died on 17 May →

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