Saarbrücken
5 October 1944 — Saarbrücken
- Date
- 5 October 1944
- Target
- Saarbrücken, Germany
Narrative
Saarbrücken, an industrial city near the French border and a key rail junction feeding the German front in the west, was heavily attacked by Bomber Command in early October 1944. The raid wrecked much of the city centre and its railway facilities, part of the wider campaign to cut the lines of communication supplying the German armies as the Allies closed on the Reich’s western frontier.
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
103 airmen in this archive died on 5 October 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 Douglas Roy Abell (21)
- Flight Lieutenant Charles Sydney Aistrop (24)
- Corporal James Allman (35)
- Flight Lieutenant Leslie Irwin Armstrong (30)
- Flight Lieutenant John Colclough Barlow (35)
- Corporal Joseph Jacques Bernard Bordeleau (20)
- Flight Sergeant Edward Borkofsky (22)
- Air Mechanic Brehem (17)
- Second Lieutenant Brits (22)
- Flight Sergeant Raymond Cecil Broad (20)
- Sergeant Francis Robinson Broadbent (25)
- Warrant Officer Ivan William Cain (20)
- Flying Officer Raymond John Cammock (21)
- Flight Sergeant John Murdoch Campbell (22)
- Flight Sergeant John Ross Charley (20)
- Pilot Officer Russell Thomas Frederick Collins
- Flight Sergeant Leo James Comeskey (24)
- Flying Officer Matthew John Goldie Cooke (26)
- Warrant Officer Murray Bernard Crockett (22)
- Corporal Leonard Ferguson Crothers (24)
- Flying Officer Alan Forster Cunningham (22)
- Pilot Officer John Garfield Curle (32)
- Flight Sergeant Ross Walter Cuthbert (20)
- Flight Lieutenant Richard Joseph Darcey (27)
See all 103 who died on 5 October →
Source: Wikipedia — Saarbrücken →