Sterkrade

Date

30 September 1944

Target

Sterkrade, Germany

Force dispatched

139 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

33 airmen in this archive died on 30 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)
• Sergeant Richard David Astley
• Corporal Leonard George Atkins
• Pilot Officer Leslie Hendrik Biesiot (30)
• Flying Officer David Ian Blackley
• Warrant Officer Patrick Hope Brewin (21)
• Leading Aircraftman George Frank Brown (28)
• Sergeant Alfred Richard Bundock
• Pilot Officer John Colin Cottier (20)
• Warrant Officer Percival Richard Criddle (21)
• Flying Officer Turner Frederickson
• Flight Lieutenant Herbert Marshall Godsall (31)
• Sergeant William Gordon (27)
• Warrant Officer Tom Philip George Griffin (24)
• Leading Aircraftman Joseph Walter Holack (19)
• Flying Officer Donald James Jennings (26)
• Warrant Officer Reginald Tyrwhit Knight (27)
• Corporal Leonard Stanley Lawson (40)
• Leading Aircraftman Robert Leroy McCullough (45)
• Pilot Officer Verne Alexander McPhee
• Flight Sergeant Guy William Hay North (26)
• Pilot Officer Ignatius Thomas Pelechaty (22)
• Pilot Officer Donald Earl Reiber (23)
• Pilot Officer Gerald Ernest Ryan (25)

See all 33 who died on 30 September →

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