England

Date

3 May 1944

Target

England

Force dispatched

28 aircraft

Aircraft lost

50

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

350 airmen in this archive died on 3 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.

• Warrant Officer Henry James Addison (22)
• Flight Sergeant Sydney Wilson Ainsworth
• Pilot Officer Alexander Stewart Aird (21)
• Sergeant Richard Walter Andrews
• Sergeant Kenneth Applegarth (20)
• Flying Officer Theodore Edward Archard (32)
• Sergeant Ronald Frank Arnold
• Flying Officer Walter Gerard Asbell (23)
• Pilot Officer Cyril Atkinson (27)
• Flying Officer Thomas Guy Atkinson (21)
• Flight Sergeant Eric Bailey (23)
• Sergeant James Bailey (19)
• Pilot Officer Francis William Baker
• Flying Officer George Baker
• Flight Sergeant George Charles Barber (32)
• Sergeant Raymond Barker (22)
• Pilot Officer Percy James William Barkway
• Flight Sergeant Dennis Ronald Barr (20)
• Flight Sergeant Stanley James Barr (22)
• Lieutenant Barter (22)
• Pilot Officer Norman George Baskerville (24)
• Flying Officer Harold Weston Batt (32)
• Flying Officer Hugh William Vaughan Bearne (22)
• Flying Officer George David Beatty (24)

See all 350 who died on 3 May →

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