Boulogne

Date

30 May 1944

Target

Boulogne, France

Force dispatched

219 aircraft

Aircraft lost

11

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

71 airmen in this archive died on 30 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.

• Leading Aircraftman Walter Aldcroft
• Sergeant William Thomas Basham (37)
• Sergeant Fred Bates (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Christopher Day Beales (25)
• Sergeant Ernest Walter Blakeman (24)
• Sergeant William Wycliffe Bright (21)
• Flying Officer John McCallum Brooks (36)
• Flight Sergeant Frank Harry Brown (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Richard Leslie William Cheek (27)
• Sergeant Ronald Charles James Cheesman
• Flying Officer Albert Edward Claridge (37)
• Sergeant Harold George Colgate
• Flight Sergeant Eric Cotterell (24)
• Flying Officer James Moore Cowie (23)
• Sergeant Nathaniel Hugh Crawford (30)
• Sergeant Jeffrey David Crosbie (21)
• Sergeant Donald Wilfred Curtis (23)
• Sergeant George Frederick Davis (22)
• Flying Officer Donald Arthur Driver (20)
• Warrant Officer William Ernest Duke (23)
• Sergeant Peter Francis Fairweather (22)
• Leading Aircraftman Ralph Franklin (22)
• Warrant Officer Peter Galletly (22)
• Sergeant Richard Baden Glasswell (20)

See all 71 who died on 30 May →

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