Wilhelmshaven

Date

9 October 1944

Target

Wilhelmshaven, Germany

Force dispatched

104 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

51 airmen in this archive died on 9 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.

• Flying Officer Ross Wellington Akey
• Warrant Officer John Charles Bates (23)
• Pilot Officer John Blair
• Aircraftman 1st Class Olaf Ruprechl Boekenstein (18)
• Leading Aircraftman Albert Leslie Brain (33)
• Flying Officer Laurence Emmett Cameron (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Richard Alvin Campbell (25)
• Pilot Officer Russell Archibald Campbell (26)
• Pilot Officer Ashton Irving Cohen
• Flying Officer Gerald Coleman (24)
• Warrant Officer Joseph Robert Crisp (28)
• Warrant Officer Albert Leslie Douglas (23)
• Pilot Officer Kenneth James Edmison
• Pilot Officer Robert Francis Emerson (21)
• Corporal Albert Fawcett (24)
• Warrant Officer Class I Joseph Emile Armand Gauthier (24)
• Pilot Officer Mike Gnida
• Corporal Leslie Malcolm Bruce Goddard (23)
• Pilot Officer John Henry Eaton Goldfinch (20)
• Sergeant Clifford Barton Greer (20)
• Flight Sergeant Donald Norrie Herbert (21)
• Flying Officer Selwyn Charles Houghton (28)
• Flying Officer Raymond Orville Hunter
• Pilot Officer Lloyd Ronald Kay (22)

See all 51 who died on 9 October →

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