Karlsruhe

Date

29 September 1944

Target

Karlsruhe, Germany

Force dispatched

97 aircraft

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

32 airmen in this archive died on 29 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.

• Leading Aircraftman Edmund Thomas Arnold (24)
• Corporal Leonard George Atkins
• Aircraftman 1st Class Ernest George Betts (26)
• Pilot Officer Leslie Hendrik Biesiot (30)
• Flying Officer David Ian Blackley
• Leading Aircraftman George Frank Brown (28)
• Sergeant Alfred Richard Bundock
• Pilot Officer Richard Eric Chambers (24)
• Wing Commander Colin Frank Mortlock Chapman (25)
• Flying Officer Walter David Dick Cooper (29)
• Flying Officer John Edgar Cornelison
• Warrant Officer George Albert Davies (29)
• Flight Sergeant Thomas Sylvester Edwards (25)
• Flying Officer Turner Frederickson
• Flying Officer Peter William Fry (25)
• Leading Aircraftman Joseph Walter Holack (19)
• Flying Officer Cyril George Hutchings
• Sergeant Howel Gwyn Jones (26)
• Corporal Leonard Stanley Lawson (40)
• Flying Officer George Dewar Macleod (22)
• Flight Sergeant John Douglas McGowan
• Pilot Officer Verne Alexander McPhee
• Flight Sergeant Guy William Hay North (26)
• Flight Sergeant Gordon Paterson

See all 32 who died on 29 September →

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