Leverkusen

Date

26 October 1944

Target

Leverkusen

Force dispatched

106 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

26 airmen in this archive died on 26 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.

• Leading Aircraftman Stanley Bousfield (24)
• Flight Sergeant Edward Thomas Brightwell (29)
• Flying Officer James Roberts Burton
• Warrant Officer Peter William Byers (20)
• Pilot Officer David Kenneth Caldwell (28)
• Leading Aircraftman Stewart Campbell
• Leading Aircraftman Robert Joseph Caverly
• Pilot Officer Henry William Ferris
• Group Captain Charles Lennox Gilbert (41)
• Sergeant Wilson Henfrey (52)
• Sergeant William James Hetherington (24)
• Flying Officer James Burleigh Hill (21)
• Sergeant John Hills (21)
• Flying Officer Jack Walter Hoad (21)
• Flying Officer Keith Ross Holland (22)
• Warrant Officer Ernest Frederick Hore
• Flight Sergeant Harold Arthur Hughes (41)
• Leading Aircraftman John Francis Hurley (40)
• Leading Aircraftman George Leo Lafleur (19)
• Sergeant Harold Edwin Mauger (27)
• Corporal William George McCormick
• Flying Officer Peter Onysko
• Flight Sergeant James Alexander Pedersen (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Reginald Plaister (51)

See all 26 who died on 26 October →

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