Courtrai

Date

10 May 1944

Target

Courtrai

Force dispatched

506 aircraft

Aircraft lost

13

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

227 airmen in this archive died on 10 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.

• Pilot Officer John Milford Aitken (28)
• Flying Officer Oliver Leslie Albutt (31)
• Flying Officer Derek Colin Alderwood (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Harry Thomas Amy
• Sergeant Ernest Anthony
• Flying Officer Ralph Scott Anyon
• Flight Sergeant Richard William Ash (20)
• Flying Officer Alan McGregor Bailey (32)
• Flight Sergeant Donald Faulkner Ball (22)
• Group Captain John Raeburn Balmer (33)
• Flight Sergeant Albert Roy Barber (21)
• Corporal Harold Barlow (24)
• Flight Sergeant William Henry Taylor Beattie (26)
• Sergeant Roland Jean Becherel (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Gilbert Bell
• Flying Officer Arthur Bennett (25)
• Sergeant George Bennett (27)
• Leading Aircraftman Lawrence Alan Blake (21)
• Flying Officer Dennis John Bland (29)
• Flying Officer Hubert Edwin Botting (33)
• Sergeant Raymond Herbert Boulton (19)
• Flying Officer Frances Charles Bowring (23)
• Flying Officer Joseph Bradburn
• Flight Sergeant John Henry Brown (31)

See all 227 who died on 10 May →

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