Boulogne

Date

13 May 1943

Target

Boulogne, France

Force dispatched

19 aircraft

Aircraft lost

1

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

428 airmen in this archive died on 13 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 George Adams (22)
• Flight Sergeant Peter Henry Alderton
• Pilot Officer Ian Hamilton Alexander (22)
• Sergeant Walter Herbert David Alison (28)
• Flying Officer Frederick Arthur Alp
• Sergeant James Samuel Andrews (23)
• Flying Officer Thomas Archibald (32)
• Sergeant Clarence Askham (22)
• Sergeant Albert Earl Atkinson (19)
• Sergeant John William Avent (21)
• Sergeant Basil Albert Bacon (20)
• Sergeant Douglas Albert Ball (21)
• Flight Sergeant Edward William Banks
• Pilot Officer Myron Edward Barker (28)
• Sergeant Laurence Philip Barnett (21)
• Sergeant Eric George Bass
• Flying Officer Richard Bastow (20)
• Sergeant Michael Bates
• Sergeant George Batty (21)
• Flying Officer Raymond Lamport Baumgarten (24)
• Sergeant David Baxter
• Sergeant Ernest George Ronald Beacham (20)
• Flying Officer Hugh Donald Beattie (21)
• Sergeant Leslie Joseph Beech (21)

See all 428 who died on 13 May →

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