Caen

Date

15 May 1943

Target

Caen, France

Force dispatched

72 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

120 airmen in this archive died on 15 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 Dick Meldrum Alfred Banton
• Flight Lieutenant Robert Norman George Barlow (32)
• Flight Lieutenant Jack Edward Bartrum (29)
• Sergeant Thomas Edward Baxter
• Flight Lieutenant Herbert John Blackshaw (26)
• Flight Sergeant Daniel Patrick Boyle (24)
• Flying Officer George Adrian Leonard Broderick (32)
• Flying Officer Andrew Alexander Brown (24)
• Flying Officer Philip Sidney Burgess (20)
• Sergeant Thomas Joseph Campbell (21)
• Flight Sergeant Roy Dempsey Carne (22)
• Sergeant Henry Hamilton Carter
• Aircraftman 1st Class Joseph John Carter (34)
• Sergeant Obadiah Cave (27)
• Warrant Officer Edward Dawson Chalmer (23)
• Flight Lieutenant Gerald Arthur Church (22)
• Sergeant Ernest Leslie Clark (19)
• Flying Officer John Ross Coates (32)
• Flying Officer Melvin Wilson Collins (21)
• Pilot Officer George Herbert Cone (24)
• Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Vincent Courtney (25)
• Leading Aircraftman Henry Ernest Creasey
• Flight Sergeant Harold Arthur John Cummings (21)
• Sergeant George Arthur Cure (21)

See all 120 who died on 15 May →

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