Brunswick

Date

16 September 1944

Command

Bomber Command

Target

Brunswick, Germany

Force dispatched

59 aircraft

Aircraft lost

1

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

62 airmen in this archive died on 16 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 Godfrey Addison Argument (23)
• Flight Sergeant John Cashel Barry (22)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Colin Boyd Begg (28)
• Flight Lieutenant Peter William Bickford
• Flight Lieutenant Roy Russell Boulter (23)
• Flight Lieutenant George William Brown (23)
• Flight Sergeant Albert Bullock (31)
• Pilot Officer James Duncan Campbell (22)
• Squadron Leader John Harry Mackellar Chisholm (26)
• Flight Sergeant John James Collins
• Major James Wilfred Cross (33)
• Pilot Officer Charles David Crowe (22)
• Corporal William Davey
• Pilot Officer Douglas Dawson
• Pilot Officer Gordon Joshua Dennison (22)
• Flight Sergeant Keith Courtney Donald (21)
• Lieutenant Dunstan Patric Farrell (19)
• Flying Officer John Bernard Fitzgerald (20)
• Pilot Officer Donald George Flood
• Pilot Officer James Cornelius Gallagher
• Flight Sergeant Nolan Alexander Good (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Ernest Philip Jeffrey Gray (27)
• Flight Lieutenant Nelson Maxwell Harding
• Flight Lieutenant Maurice Hemingway (36)

See all 62 who died on 16 September →

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