Caen

Date

1 May 1943

Target

Caen, 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

145 airmen in this archive died on 1 May 1943 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 Sydney Abel (21)
• Sergeant John Gordon Alderson (22)
• Sergeant Kenneth Ambler
• Sergeant Albert Victor Ansell (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Herbert Philipson Atkinson (26)
• Flight Sergeant Jack Baker (25)
• Leading Aircraftman Robert Edward Baker
• Sergeant Alfred Lionel Barber (34)
• Sergeant Dennis Robert Barber (23)
• Sergeant Jack Bayliss (23)
• Sergeant Alvery Beard (21)
• Sergeant Ernest Jack Beer (29)
• Squadron Leader Frederick Clifford Bertram (30)
• Flight Lieutenant Edward William Bitmead (31)
• Sergeant William Charles Bostock (30)
• Sergeant Horace Alfred Briggs
• Sergeant Douglas Brown (21)
• Sergeant John Bonser Browne (20)
• Sergeant John Peter Hughes Brownlee
• Leading Aircraftman Gerald Ivor Buckman (21)
• Sergeant Dennis Charles Butlin
• Sergeant Alec Reginald Camburn
• Flying Officer Roderick Halliley Capron (35)
• Sergeant Frederick John Chandler

See all 145 who died on 1 May →

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