Dortmund

Date

12 September 1944

Target

Dortmund, Germany

Force dispatched

412 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

142 airmen in this archive died on 12 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.

• Flight Lieutenant Karl Inge Aalborg (27)
• Pilot Officer Victor Abel (23)
• Pilot Officer Eric Kenneth Adams (28)
• Flying Officer Edward David Alexander (27)
• Flying Officer Leonard Edward Anderson (24)
• Warrant Officer Terence Lansdowne Awcock (26)
• Pilot Officer Charles Richard Henry Baker
• Flight Sergeant Francis Graham Barrett-lennard (21)
• Warrant Officer Class II Lloyd James Baxter (22)
• Sergeant Jean Baptiste Belanger (36)
• Flight Sergeant John Matthew Biggar (22)
• Warrant Officer Stephen Dale Birdsall (24)
• Flight Sergeant James John Bishop (21)
• Pilot Officer Clarence Alwin Black (33)
• Flight Sergeant Maxwell Bibra Blaubaum (20)
• Flying Officer George Thomas Bolderston (22)
• Pilot Officer Donald McMillan Boyd (20)
• Flight Sergeant William James Victor Boyd (20)
• Flying Officer William Ransom Breithaupt (24)
• Flying Officer Edward Joseph Brian (27)
• Flying Officer Clare Edward Brooks
• Pilot Officer Clement Hector Brown (29)
• Flight Lieutenant David Dorey Browne (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Percy Lloyd Buck (29)

See all 142 who died on 12 September →

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