Sterkrade

Date

6 October 1944

Target

Sterkrade, Germany

Force dispatched

320 aircraft

Aircraft lost

9

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

88 airmen in this archive died on 6 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.

• Pilot Officer Douglas Roy Abell (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Charles Sydney Aistrop (24)
• Flight Lieutenant Leslie Irwin Armstrong (30)
• Flight Lieutenant John Colclough Barlow (35)
• Pilot Officer Alvin Graham Bodkin (35)
• Corporal Joseph Jacques Bernard Bordeleau (20)
• Flight Sergeant Edward Borkofsky (22)
• Air Mechanic Brehem (17)
• Second Lieutenant Brits (22)
• Flight Sergeant Raymond Cecil Broad (20)
• Sergeant Francis Robinson Broadbent (25)
• Pilot Officer Glenn Wesley Brooks (21)
• Warrant Officer Ivan William Cain (20)
• Flying Officer Raymond John Cammock (21)
• Flight Sergeant John Murdoch Campbell (22)
• Flight Sergeant John Ross Charley (20)
• Pilot Officer Russell Thomas Frederick Collins
• Warrant Officer Murray Bernard Crockett (22)
• Sergeant Archibald Henry Holton Culmer (44)
• Flying Officer Alan Forster Cunningham (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Richard Joseph Darcey (27)
• Warrant Officer Alfred Milne Hunter Davidson (25)
• Flight Sergeant Archibald Cattanach Davidson (24)
• Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Noel Drummond (26)

See all 88 who died on 6 October →

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