Corley, Louie Elmo (Flight Sergeant)

Took off from Warboys at 21:15 in Lancaster Mk I (Sqn code GT- Bomber Command) on an operation to Plzen Czechoslovakia.

Crashed at Aigny (Marne) 14 km NW of Challon-sur-Marne France, Cause of crash not found.

Killed: Flight Sergeant Louie Elmo Corley RCAF R/126738 KIA Chalons-En-Champagne East Communal Cemetery Sec. I. Coll. grave 1632-1635. Pilot Officer Michael Cyriates Anastassiades RAF KIA Chalons-En-Champagne East Communal Cemetery Sec. I. Grave 1631. Sergeant James Boyd RAF KIA Chalons-En-Champagne East Communal Cemetery Sec. I. Coll. grave 1632-1635. Sergeant John Gordon Kennedy Dean RAF KIA Conde-Sur-Marne Communal Cemetery Grave 17. Pilot Officer Hugh Bernard Gonce (American) RAF KIA pilot KIA Chalons-En-Champagne East Communal Cemetery Sec. I. Grave 1630. Sergeant Murdo Mckenzie Muirhead RAF KIA Chalons-En-Champagne East Communal Cemetery Sec. I. Coll. grave 1632-1635. Sergeant Harry Dawson Rowe RAF KIA Chalons-En-Champagne East Communal Cemetery Sec. I. Coll. grave 1632-1635.

This was not a successful operation for Bomber Command. There were 327 aircraft involved in this operation, with 36 aircraft and crews lost (11%) and the factory was not damaged or even hit by a bomb