Abbeville

Date

4 May 1943

Target

Abbeville

Force dispatched

15 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

253 airmen in this archive died on 4 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.

• Flying Officer Norman Ainsworth (20)
• Sergeant Richard Allison
• Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas Francis Amies (36)
• Sergeant Anderson (21)
• Flight Sergeant Jack Colin Archer
• Flight Sergeant George Ernest Armstrong
• Pilot Officer Thomas Armstrong
• Sergeant John Avery (23)
• Flight Sergeant James Banyer (33)
• Flight Sergeant John Lawrence Barry (23)
• Flight Lieutenant Jean Paul Barsalou (25)
• Flight Sergeant Sidney William Bartlett (19)
• Flying Officer John Baxter (27)
• Sergeant Frederick Ronald Beech (21)
• Sergeant James Arthur Beedim (34)
• Sergeant Frederick Horace Bennetton (20)
• Pilot Officer Robert Henry Waldron Bentley (23)
• Sergeant Victor Edward Betterton
• Sergeant Jack Smith Birkett (24)
• Pilot Officer Robert Orin Blackhall (23)
• Sergeant Charles Robert Sayre Blenkhorn (22)
• Sergeant John McLaren Boswell (26)
• Flight Sergeant Kenneth Charles George Bourne (20)
• Sergeant Gordon Stanley Bowles

See all 253 who died on 4 May →

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