Walcheren
30 October 1944 — Walcheren
- Date
- 30 October 1944
- Target
- Walcheren
- Force dispatched
- 214 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
31 airmen in this archive died on 30 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.
- Corporal Orran Willard Carey (23)
- Pilot Officer Bruce Charles Chinnery (23)
- Flying Officer La Verne John Dick (28)
- Pilot Officer Arthur Francis Emery (18)
- Flying Officer Maxwell Alfred Flory (21)
- Squadron Leader Russel George Foskett (27)
- Sergeant Ronald Ellis Fox (20)
- Major Sigmund Fuchs
- Major Carl Frederick Geere (27)
- Flying Officer James David Nicol Gillingham (28)
- Flight Sergeant Allan Frederick Hampshire (20)
- Second Lieutenant Raymond Hardwick
- Lieutenant Henry (21)
- Leading Aircraftman George Horst (25)
- Leading Aircraftman Lars Cyril Jansonn (17)
- Leading Aircraftman Stanley Harold Ling (21)
- Pilot Officer Llewellyn William Linklater (20)
- Leading Aircraftman Henry Loewen (20)
- Leading Aircraftman Wilfred Lowe (41)
- Flight Sergeant Mervyn Marshall (20)
- Flight Sergeant Laurence Dominic Moran (20)
- Flying Officer William Graham Muir (27)
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Potts
- Flying Officer Edward Forbes Reid (21)
See all 31 who died on 30 October →
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →