Bourg

Date

27 May 1944

Target

Bourg

Force dispatched

331 aircraft

Aircraft lost

15

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

226 airmen in this archive died on 27 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 Dennis Herbert Acworth (21)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Albert Edward Allan (22)
• Sergeant Anthony Peter Allen (20)
• Pilot Officer Thomas Arthur Allen (21)
• Flying Officer Edward John Andrews
• Flying Officer Clyde Glencoe Archibald (23)
• Leading Aircraftman William Arnott (24)
• Pilot Officer Robert Frederick Ayres (23)
• Pilot Officer Elmer Lincoln Bailey (28)
• Sergeant William Oliver Douglas Baird (33)
• Warrant Officer Eric Holdgate Baker (21)
• Corporal Edwin George Ballard (40)
• Sergeant Michael Bertram Palliser Barrow (20)
• Flying Officer Stuart Percival Barter
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Ronald Batting (22)
• Squadron Leader Gordon Scowcroft Beall (28)
• Warrant Officer William Walter Beavan (24)
• Flying Officer Raymond Henry Beer (21)
• Sergeant David Robertson Bell (21)
• Sergeant John Edward Benson (23)
• Warrant Officer Class II William Blair (30)
• Sergeant Charles Aidan Bonner (20)
• Warrant Officer Ernest Moreton Boon (22)
• Corporal Phillip Alwyn Botham (23)

See all 226 who died on 27 May →

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