Wilhelmshaven

Date

15 October 1944

Target

Wilhelmshaven, Germany

Force dispatched

506 aircraft

Aircraft lost

2

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

91 airmen in this archive died on 15 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.

• Lieutenant Ackerman (24)
• Warrant Officer Class I Andrews
• Sergeant Leslie Arthur Andrews
• Leading Aircraftman Joseph Edgar Bastarache (20)
• Flight Sergeant Byron Jeremiah Becker
• Flying Officer Daniel Charles Bermingham (22)
• Lieutenant Botha (31)
• Warrant Officer Class I Botha (23)
• Squadron Leader Norman Leslie Bourke (27)
• Flying Officer James Commodore Campbell (28)
• Flight Sergeant Frederick Paul Cartan
• Flying Officer Percy John Castle (29)
• Pilot Officer Roland Marcel Joseph Champagne (24)
• Pilot Officer Henry Holmes Chapman (28)
• Flying Officer Robert Albert Charland
• Flying Officer Ross Cuthbert Clouston (22)
• Sergeant Ronald Cochrane
• Flight Sergeant Francis John Cook (21)
• Sergeant Gordon Thomas Cook (22)
• Lieutenant Dennis Osborne Cullingworth (27)
• Flying Officer Keith Russell Dumas (24)
• Warrant Officer Douglas James Edmiston (23)
• Flight Lieutenant Daniel John Falconer (30)
• Warrant Officer Harold Leonard Ferguson (23)

See all 91 who died on 15 October →

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