Wilhelmshaven

Date

14 September 1944

Target

Wilhelmshaven, Germany

Force dispatched

184 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

37 airmen in this archive died on 14 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 Eric Victor Adams (25)
• Flight Sergeant David Bruce Ernst Bacon (27)
• Flying Officer Arthur Harold Banfield (31)
• Flying Officer John William Bayard (24)
• Leading Aircraftman Charles Verdun Bone (27)
• Corporal Raymond James Bonnett (26)
• Flying Officer Robert John Brown (24)
• Flying Officer Fred Marsden Clarke (22)
• Pilot Officer Joseph Fernand Oscar Cloutier (21)
• Leading Aircraftman William Archibald Costigan (20)
• Corporal Lorne Albert Cudmore (26)
• Flying Officer James Ernest Davidson (22)
• Lieutenant Ian Isaac De Klerk
• Lieutenant Dickson (24)
• Air Corporal Sydney Dixon (38)
• Warrant Officer George John Forbes (30)
• Leading Aircraftman John Thomas Gill (25)
• Pilot Officer Wallis Conrad Glew (21)
• Air Corporal Ernest Arthur Green (59)
• Sergeant Noel William Harper (19)
• Sergeant Cyril Hutchinson
• Flight Sergeant William Wreford Lewis Jardine (20)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Roy Axel Kermit Johnson (19)
• Flight Sergeant William Kiewyryga (28)

See all 37 who died on 14 September →

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