Karlsruhe

Date

26 September 1944

Target

Karlsruhe, Germany

Force dispatched

289 aircraft

Aircraft lost

2

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

40 airmen in this archive died on 26 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)
• Flight Sergeant Glenn Prosper Adams (22)
• Flying Officer Thomas John Bolger (23)
• Flight Lieutenant Frank Bolton (29)
• Flying Officer Norman Jack Bowman (27)
• Flying Officer Leonard James Brennan (22)
• Flight Sergeant Ronald Charles Brookman (26)
• Flight Lieutenant Robert Clasper (22)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Bernard George Dadds (33)
• Warrant Officer Beresford George Douglas Dillon (20)
• Lieutenant Thomas William Eaton (27)
• Leading Aircraftman Idris Morton Evans (25)
• Flying Officer Allan Thomas Fitzpatrick (22)
• Pilot Officer Frederick John Alec Frey
• Pilot Officer William Adam Gray (23)
• Flight Lieutenant Robert Edward Holness (24)
• Pilot Officer Paul Emile Hurtubise
• Flight Lieutenant George Lane (38)
• Squadron Leader Henry Wallace McLeod (28)
• Flying Officer Russell McIntyre Monck (22)
• Warrant Officer John Bonaventure O'Connell (29)
• Wing Commander Charles William Palmer
• Flying Officer Wilfred George F. Peacock (22)
• Pilot Officer Alan John Perkins (20)

See all 40 who died on 26 September →

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