Nantes

Date

7 May 1944

Target

Nantes

Force dispatched

42 aircraft

Aircraft lost

9

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

208 airmen in this archive died on 7 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.

• Flying Officer Elmer Oscar Aaron (23)
• Sergeant Ernest James Adams (19)
• Sergeant Robert Edwin Addis (20)
• Pilot Officer Richard Colton Alexander
• Sergeant Dennis Geoffrey Allen (22)
• Pilot Officer Arthur Leslie Anderson (22)
• Flying Officer James Alexander Armour (22)
• Sergeant Aubrey Louis Arthur Ash-smith (26)
• Flight Lieutenant Alan Austin (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Neil Thomson Badger (27)
• Flight Sergeant William Albert Baker (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Robert Edward Banks (24)
• Pilot Officer Cyril Alfred Bartlett (24)
• Flight Sergeant Alec Beanlands (22)
• Wing Commander Roderick Keith Faulkner Bell-irving (24)
• Sergeant Thomas Evan Edward Benjamin (21)
• Flying Officer Percy Raymond Billingsley (20)
• Warrant Officer Arthur Henry Biltoft (25)
• Flight Sergeant Peter Bissett (22)
• Flight Sergeant Thomas Blacklock (22)
• Sergeant Ronald Boffey (23)
• Sergeant Jack Booth (23)
• Pilot Officer Robert Dean Borrowes
• Flying Officer Stanley Broadbent (26)

See all 208 who died on 7 May →

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