Hamburg

Date

22 October 1944

Target

Hamburg, Germany

Force dispatched

71 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

68 airmen in this archive died on 22 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 Robert Howard Armstrong (21)
• Flight Sergeant Edward Phillip Austin (23)
• Flying Officer Francis Aubrey Bell (33)
• Flight Sergeant Rupert William Bergelin (20)
• Flight Sergeant Earl William Bock (21)
• Squadron Leader Kenneth Arthur Boomer
• Flying Officer John William Brady (20)
• Sergeant Ernest Campbell (34)
• Air Corporal Jasper L. Coetzee
• Flying Officer Joseph Vincent Collingwood (31)
• Flight Sergeant Robert Coward (22)
• Sergeant Vincent Joseph Davoren (30)
• Flying Officer Walter William Ronald Dawes (22)
• Pilot Officer Thomas Arthur Ellison (28)
• Flight Sergeant Allan Farmer (22)
• Flight Sergeant Ian Hunter Fleming (25)
• Corporal George Henry Frank
• Flight Sergeant Kenneth Thomas Frankish (20)
• Flying Officer Joseph (joe) Futoranski
• Flight Lieutenant Noel James Gibbons (29)
• Flight Lieutenant Malcolm Lawrence Matthew Gillis (26)
• Leading Aircraftman William Eric Hall (30)
• Flight Sergeant George Theodore Hallam
• Sergeant James Ashworth Holding (22)

See all 68 who died on 22 October →

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