Mannheim

Date

25 September 1944

Target

Mannheim, Germany

Force dispatched

79 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

43 airmen in this archive died on 25 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.

• Pilot Officer Robert Joseph Acres (23)
• Pilot Officer Walter Nelson Auld (27)
• Flight Lieutenant Bernard Boe (28)
• Flying Officer Thomas John Bolger (23)
• Flight Lieutenant Frank Bolton (29)
• Flight Lieutenant Gordon Loversidge Bonham (23)
• Flying Officer Norman Jack Bowman (27)
• Flying Officer Leonard James Brennan (22)
• Flight Sergeant Ronald Charles Brookman (26)
• Sergeant Donald Macphail Cameron (25)
• Flying Officer Kenneth Edward Clark (19)
• Flying Officer Colin Edwin Abbott Cock (26)
• Flight Sergeant Paulus Senor Coronel (29)
• Warrant Officer Beresford George Douglas Dillon (20)
• Flying Officer Jack Else (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Idris Morton Evans (25)
• Warrant Officer Raymond Faria (23)
• Pilot Officer Frederick John Alec Frey
• Flight Sergeant Colin Silkirk Henderson (25)
• Flight Lieutenant Frederick George Johnson (25)
• Flying Officer Richard Allan Jones (20)
• Flying Officer Thomas John Lennie (31)
• Flight Sergeant Colin Richard Leslie (21)
• Warrant Officer Alan Robert Lyneham (35)

See all 43 who died on 25 September →

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