Toulouse

Date

1 May 1944

Target

Toulouse

Force dispatched

137 aircraft

Aircraft lost

4

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

139 airmen in this archive died on 1 May 1944 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.

• Flight Sergeant Philip John Adamson (23)
• Sergeant Henry Thomas Alpe (20)
• Flying Officer Maurice Reuben Joein Anderson (40)
• Sergeant Frederick James Arbon (20)
• Flying Officer Raymond Leonard Archer
• Sergeant Leonard Victor Ashton
• Sergeant Harry Astrand (21)
• Flying Officer James Alexander Bailie (32)
• Flight Sergeant John Baker (21)
• Sergeant Earl Freiman Baldry (20)
• Warrant Officer Class II Murray Richard Bell
• Leading Aircraftman Thomas Beveridge (22)
• Flight Sergeant Ronald Frederick Bickford (21)
• Flight Sergeant Donald Lloyd Brett
• Warrant Officer Trevor Richmond Broadbent
• Flight Sergeant Alfred George Brown (27)
• Sergeant John Joseph Bruce (25)
• Leading Aircraftman Frederick Bryant (28)
• Flying Officer Harold Cherberd Bryant (32)
• Flight Sergeant Francis Augustine Burroughs (28)
• Pilot Officer John Louis Edmond Chartrand
• Sergeant Victor George Childs (19)
• Corporal Alfred Charles Stanley Clark (28)
• Sergeant Ronald Claxton

See all 139 who died on 1 May →

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