Neuss

Date

23 September 1944

Target

Neuss

Force dispatched

549 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

116 airmen in this archive died on 23 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 James Ernest Allen
• Flight Sergeant David Corry Ardis (28)
• Flying Officer William Baker (22)
• Lieutenant Denys Vincent Bartholomew (24)
• Leading Aircraftman Lawrence Irwin Beach
• Sergeant George Beckoff (20)
• Leading Aircraftman Oliver Eugene Debs Bergen (20)
• Warrant Officer Garth Mervyn Blue (21)
• Flight Sergeant Charles John Brady (25)
• Warrant Officer Class II Brits (22)
• Flying Officer Geoffrey Albert Brown (20)
• Flying Officer Ronald Westland Brown (30)
• Flying Officer Gerald George Bryan
• Leading Aircraftman Robert Thomas Burden
• Flying Officer William Stirling Burns (23)
• Flying Officer Ian Melville Campbell (23)
• Corporal William Howard Campbell (26)
• Squadron Leader Albert Ferdinand Cave (43)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Robert Barcham Chandler (39)
• Leading Aircraftman Joseph Adelard Real Chevrier (29)
• Flight Sergeant John Frederick William Clarke (22)
• Pilot Officer Henry Everest Colman (19)
• Flying Officer John James Condon (24)
• Flight Sergeant Simon Pierre Cormier (23)

See all 116 who died on 23 September →

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