Bourg

Date

11 May 1944

Target

Bourg

Force dispatched

135 aircraft

Aircraft lost

14

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 11 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 Gilbert Harry Agar (22)
• Flying Officer Derek Colin Alderwood (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Alan Amies (21)
• Sergeant Philip Amies (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Harry Thomas Amy
• Flying Officer Ralph Scott Anyon
• Flight Sergeant Algernon Early William Ayre
• Sergeant Herbert Samuel Baker
• Flight Sergeant Donald Faulkner Ball (22)
• Group Captain John Raeburn Balmer (33)
• Flight Sergeant Albert Roy Barber (21)
• Squadron Leader Clayton Keith Barrett
• Flight Sergeant James Henry Barton (21)
• Sergeant Frederick James Bassett (30)
• Flying Officer Douglas George Bentley
• Leading Aircraftman Lawrence Alan Blake (21)
• Flying Officer Dennis John Bland (29)
• Sergeant Raymond James Bond (21)
• Flying Officer Frances Charles Bowring (23)
• Leading Aircraftman Sydney James Branch (25)
• Squadron Leader Wilfred Henry Broom (24)
• Flying Officer John Armagh Charles Brown (30)
• Corporal George St. Clair Bryden (45)
• Corporal Francis Edward Bulcock (27)

See all 208 who died on 11 May →

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