Gelsenkirchen

Date

13 September 1944

Target

Gelsenkirchen, Germany

Force dispatched

140 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

48 airmen in this archive died on 13 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)
• Flying Officer John William Bayard (24)
• Sergeant Jean Baptiste Belanger (36)
• Leading Aircraftman Charles Verdun Bone (27)
• Corporal Raymond James Bonnett (26)
• Flying Officer William Ransom Breithaupt (24)
• Flying Officer Clare Edward Brooks
• Flying Officer Robert John Brown (24)
• Flight Sergeant Harvey George Carson (22)
• Flying Officer Fred Marsden Clarke (22)
• Flight Sergeant Basil Edgar Columbus (19)
• Leading Aircraftman William Archibald Costigan (20)
• Flying Officer James Ernest Davidson (22)
• Warrant Officer George John Forbes (30)
• Flying Officer Arthur Alfred Frederick (24)
• Pilot Officer Wallis Conrad Glew (21)
• Warrant Officer Class I Horscroft
• Flight Sergeant Nathan Merrill Hurlbut (21)
• Sergeant Cyril Hutchinson
• Flight Lieutenant Abraham Lionel Kirsch (21)
• Flight Sergeant Ainsworth Laing (20)
• Pilot Officer Allan Douglas Macdougall (26)
• Flying Officer Richard Edwardes Maclaren (32)

See all 48 who died on 13 September →

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