Modane

Date

10 November 1943

Target

Modane

Force dispatched

200 aircraft

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

106 airmen in this archive died on 10 November 1943 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.

• Sergeant Alistair William Aitken (19)
• Flight Sergeant Lionel Maxwell Amesbury (25)
• Flying Officer Walter Gray Arnold (25)
• Leading Aircraftman Alan Douglas Aslett (23)
• Corporal Leslie Arthur Aspinall (28)
• Flight Sergeant John Herbert Barkwell (19)
• Flying Officer Frederick Arthur Barr (30)
• Pilot Officer Reginald Lionel Barton-smith (22)
• Sergeant Harold Royston Batten
• Sergeant Clifford Walter Henry Baughen (21)
• Sergeant Arthur Beaumont Boocock (32)
• Sergeant Ian Clark Brough
• Aircraftman 1st Class William John Brown (36)
• Flying Officer Roland Henry Browne
• Corporal Alfred John Arthur Burrows (33)
• Flight Sergeant Robert Hugh Campbell (25)
• Corporal Arthur Carlton (43)
• Flight Lieutenant Hubert Geoffrey John Coddington (24)
• Sergeant Ronald Cotterill (23)
• Flight Lieutenant Ian Harper Courtney
• Leading Aircraftman John Joseph Crockett (24)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Thomas Davies
• Sergeant Percival Ivor Dursley (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Archibald Menzies Fitzrandolph (47)

See all 106 who died on 10 November →

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