Walcheren

Date

3 October 1944

Target

Walcheren

Force dispatched

302 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

46 airmen in this archive died on 3 October 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.

• Warrant Officer Class II Attwell (19)
• Warrant Officer Class II Aylett
• Flying Officer Robert Ranui Bradshaw (20)
• Flying Officer Richard Gladstone Campbell (21)
• Flying Officer Hugh Thomas Conlin (25)
• Corporal Ronald Edwin Curnow (22)
• Sergeant Harold Edwin Day (25)
• Captain Dietrich (28)
• Flying Officer George Ross Duncan
• Lieutenant Du Toit
• Sergeant Ernest Finney (24)
• Flying Officer Andrew Gaddess (21)
• Warrant Officer Class I Richard James Gregory (22)
• Flight Sergeant Arnold Thomas Hill (22)
• Lieutenant Hopkins (23)
• Warrant Officer Louis Irving
• Pilot Officer William Russell Karstens (22)
• Sergeant Leslie Mathias Langley (24)
• Flying Officer Joseph Armand Roger Lucien La Palme (25)
• Flying Officer William George Layng (21)
• Flight Sergeant Gordon Alden Macleod (29)
• Flying Officer Jack Martin (25)
• Pilot Officer Robert McCloy (22)
• Sergeant James Walter Douglas McKay (19)

See all 46 who died on 3 October →

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