Karlsruhe

Date

7 September 1944

Target

Karlsruhe, Germany

Force dispatched

57 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

22 airmen in this archive died on 7 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.

• Corporal Kenneth Scott Adlard
• Sergeant Victor Stanley James Belt (25)
• Sergeant William Albert Breach (35)
• Sergeant Charles James Brereton (21)
• Pilot Officer George Churchard (21)
• Warrant Officer Thomas William Coburn (24)
• Pilot Officer William Neville Daniel (20)
• Squadron Leader Leslie Roy Dawson (40)
• Air Mechanic Drane (21)
• Flying Officer Russell David Durling (19)
• Flight Lieutenant John Edward Goddard (21)
• Flight Sergeant William Hashim (24)
• Flight Sergeant Noel Whitmarsh Hawkins (24)
• Sergeant Albert Coulthurst Jones (37)
• Flight Lieutenant Robert Fraser Logie
• Flying Officer Denis Llewellyn Loveridge
• Sergeant Robert Harold Moorcroft (20)
• Pilot Officer Donald Carr Odell (19)
• Flight Sergeant Thomas Donovan Potter (19)
• Flying Officer Norman William Powell (19)
• Flying Officer Guy Parker Roberts (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Paul Edward Willoughby (30)

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