Pforzheim

Date

4 October 1944

Target

Pforzheim, Germany

Force dispatched

15 aircraft

Aircraft lost

4

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

65 airmen in this archive died on 4 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.

• Corporal James Allman (35)
• Flying Officer Robert Ranui Bradshaw (20)
• Flying Officer Richard Gladstone Campbell (21)
• Flight Sergeant Leo James Comeskey (24)
• Flying Officer Hugh Thomas Conlin (25)
• Flying Officer Matthew John Goldie Cooke (26)
• Corporal Leonard Ferguson Crothers (24)
• Pilot Officer John Garfield Curle (32)
• Flight Sergeant Ross Walter Cuthbert (20)
• Flight Sergeant William Alexander Dickson (20)
• Flying Officer Jack Llewelyn Dougan (28)
• Flying Officer George Ross Duncan
• Sergeant Charles Frederick Farley
• Sergeant Ernest Finney (24)
• Warrant Officer Errol Percival Ford (28)
• Flying Officer Andrew Gaddess (21)
• Pilot Officer Alan Russell Galletly (33)
• Flying Officer Stanley David Gaudin (30)
• Flight Sergeant Gerald Francis Geraghty (20)
• Pilot Officer Marcel Gravel (21)
• Flying Officer George Arthur Green (31)
• Warrant Officer Class I Richard James Gregory (22)
• Sergeant Douglas Allenby Guest
• Flying Officer Philip Frank Charles Haydock (28)

See all 65 who died on 4 October →

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