Bochum
4 November 1944 — Bochum
- Date
- 4 November 1944
- Target
- Bochum, Germany
Narrative
The night of 4/5 November 1944 saw the last major Bomber Command raid on Bochum, a steel town in the eastern Ruhr. A large force gutted the area around the Vereinigte Stahlwerke steelworks and much of the town with incendiary fire, severely damaging the plant. Coming late in the campaign, when the Ruhr’s defences were weakening, it was nonetheless a heavy and destructive attack.
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
108 airmen in this archive died on 4 November 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.
- Flying Officer James Llewellyn Allan (23)
- Flight Sergeant Patrick Joseph Ambrose (20)
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Peder Christian Andersen (28)
- Flying Officer George Hadley Baily (21)
- Flight Sergeant Virgil Gilbert Bambrick (30)
- Flight Sergeant John Banfield (26)
- Leading Aircraftman Rosslyn Glover Banford (25)
- Flight Sergeant Reginald Harold Battye (19)
- Corporal Samuel Mitchell Bayley (48)
- Sergeant Maurice George Beckley (21)
- Pilot Officer William Border (22)
- Flying Officer Keith Bishop Brooks (22)
- Flying Officer Geoffrey William Brown (21)
- Pilot Officer Albert Edward Burgess
- Flight Sergeant Donald Eugene Burrows (19)
- Flying Officer Anthony Carlyle Cameron (21)
- Flying Officer Nigel Bruce Carrall (22)
- Leading Aircraftman Frederick Samuel Carter
- Flight Lieutenant Hugh Orme Cato (21)
- Corporal Lewis Charles Liversedge Cawthorn (45)
- Pilot Officer Robert James Chalmers (20)
- Flying Officer Antony Dutton Chapman (28)
- Aircraftman 1st Class George Gavin Cedric Clarke (18)
- Flying Officer John Earl Clements
See all 108 who died on 4 November →
Source: WW2 Today — RAF Bomber Command's last major raid on Bochum →