Angers

Date

28 May 1944

Target

Angers

Force dispatched

24 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

233 airmen in this archive died on 28 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 Robert Henry Altoft (22)
• 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)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class George Frederick Barrett (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)
• Flying Officer Charles Allen Blackmore (23)
• Warrant Officer Class II William Blair (30)
• Sergeant Charles Aidan Bonner (20)
• Warrant Officer Ernest Moreton Boon (22)

See all 233 who died on 28 May →

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