Boulogne

Date

19 May 1944

Target

Boulogne, France

Force dispatched

143 aircraft

Aircraft lost

2

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

118 airmen in this archive died on 19 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 James Alexander Abbott (35)
• Sergeant Leslie George Ambler (23)
• Flying Officer Sydney Louis Anderson (26)
• Pilot Officer Samuel Stephen Atkin (22)
• Squadron Leader John Baker (28)
• Flying Officer Robert John Barber
• Wing Commander James Fraser Barron (23)
• Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Willie Yvon Bibeau
• Sergeant Arthur Thomas Blunden (37)
• Pilot Officer John Herbert Booth (23)
• Flight Lieutenant Alan Gordon Byers (28)
• Flying Officer William Hugh Iain Cameron (21)
• Flight Sergeant Archibald Burton Campbell
• Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Carter (22)
• Warrant Officer Class I Charles Bernard Everett Clow (29)
• Squadron Leader Philip Robert Coldwell (24)
• Flight Sergeant Rezon Ambrose Cooper (65)
• Sergeant Geoffrey Douglas Cossins
• Sergeant Robert Max Cotterell (23)
• Corporal Cyril James Coulman (37)
• Warrant Officer Class I John Henry Cowan (28)
• Flight Sergeant William Sidney Creber (20)
• Leading Aircraftman William John Arthur Davis (41)
• Squadron Leader John Mervyn Dennis (30)

See all 118 who died on 19 May →

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