Kiel

Date

15 September 1944

Target

Kiel, Germany

Force dispatched

490 aircraft

Aircraft lost

7

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

58 airmen in this archive died on 15 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)
• Flight Sergeant John Cashel Barry (22)
• Flight Sergeant Albert Bullock (31)
• Pilot Officer James Duncan Campbell (22)
• Squadron Leader John Harry Mackellar Chisholm (26)
• Pilot Officer Joseph Fernand Oscar Cloutier (21)
• Flight Sergeant John James Collins
• Major James Wilfred Cross (33)
• Pilot Officer Charles David Crowe (22)
• Corporal Lorne Albert Cudmore (26)
• Corporal William Davey
• Lieutenant Ian Isaac De Klerk
• Pilot Officer Gordon Joshua Dennison (22)
• Lieutenant Dickson (24)
• Air Corporal Sydney Dixon (38)
• Flight Sergeant Keith Courtney Donald (21)
• Flying Officer John Bernard Fitzgerald (20)
• Pilot Officer James Cornelius Gallagher
• Leading Aircraftman John Thomas Gill (25)
• Flight Lieutenant Ernest Philip Jeffrey Gray (27)
• Air Corporal Ernest Arthur Green (59)
• Flight Lieutenant Nelson Maxwell Harding

See all 58 who died on 15 September →

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