Hannover

Date

5 September 1944

Target

Hannover

Force dispatched

19 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

34 airmen in this archive died on 5 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.

• Flying Officer Clifton Llewellyn Andrew (34)
• Corporal Fred Boulton (24)
• Wing Commander Neil Ballingal Reid Bromley (29)
• Pilot Officer Reginald Elwyn Byrne (23)
• Flight Lieutenant George Francis Cornwell (25)
• Flight Sergeant Alan Livingstone Currie (20)
• Leading Aircraftman Edwin Orville Cuthill (20)
• Flight Sergeant Christopher Joseph Deutscher (20)
• Leading Aircraftman Thomas Henry Dixon (24)
• Warrant Officer Class I Joseph Alphonse Raymond Dore
• Pilot Officer William John Doughty (19)
• Squadron Leader James Grant Fleming
• Warrant Officer Ernest Ronald Gadsden (25)
• Flying Officer Frederick William Greenwood (28)
• Flight Sergeant Reginald Arthur Groves (19)
• Warrant Officer John Henry Hedger (23)
• Sergeant Beverley Gordon Kitchen (20)
• Corporal David Mailis Marr (39)
• Flying Officer Edwin Earl McCann
• Pilot Officer Roy McVicar McIlveen (21)
• Flying Officer John Russell Pound
• Flying Officer William Bruce Richardson (22)
• Flying Officer Herbert Stanley Seibold
• Leading Aircraftman William Garnet Matthew Strong (19)

See all 34 who died on 5 September →

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