Karlsruhe

Date

4 September 1944

Target

Karlsruhe, Germany

Force dispatched

43 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

18 airmen in this archive died on 4 September 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.

• Warrant Officer Class II Brook (20)
• Pilot Officer Reginald Elwyn Byrne (23)
• Flight Sergeant John Paterson Cummins (24)
• Lieutenant Dekenah (23)
• Flight Sergeant Christopher Joseph Deutscher (20)
• Pilot Officer William John Doughty (19)
• Warrant Officer Ernest Ronald Gadsden (25)
• Flight Sergeant Maurice Roy Haycock (27)
• Pilot Officer Roy McVicar McIlveen (21)
• Warrant Officer Class I McNamara (20)
• Lieutenant Moodie
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Harold Vincent Perreau
• Corporal Joseph Omer Henri Paul Rinfret (26)
• Flight Sergeant Leslie Glenister Thurling (29)
• Flight Sergeant Raymond Wolfe Tuck (26)
• Group Captain Charles Bruce Turner (40)
• Flight Sergeant Harold Thomas Wise (25)
• Lieutenant Zinn (21)

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