Ulm
17 December 1944 — Ulm
- Date
- 17 December 1944
- Target
- Ulm, Germany
- Force dispatched
- 330 aircraft
- Aircraft lost
- 2
Narrative
On the night of 17 December 1944, 317 Lancasters and 13 Mosquitoes of Nos 1 and 8 Groups attacked Ulm, a town on the Danube with lorry and vehicle works of military value. The concentrated attack burned out much of the old town beneath its famous minster, killed over 700 people and left some 25,000 homeless, for the loss of two 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
84 airmen in this archive died on 17 December 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.
- Sergeant Chester Edward Anderson (20)
- Flying Officer Percy Barlow (35)
- Flying Officer Leslie William Beer
- Flying Officer Kenneth Edwin Harold Bennett (22)
- Flying Officer Joseph Wilfrid Laurier F. Bernier (29)
- Pilot Officer Alfred Goodman-wells Blayney (27)
- Pilot Officer Duncan Stewart Brown (20)
- Flight Lieutenant David Graham Buchanan (23)
- Pilot Officer Robert Wentworth Byrnes (26)
- Flying Officer Robert Leslie Cann (22)
- Flying Officer Harry James Scutchings Cargill (25)
- Pilot Officer Frank Coulson (29)
- Flying Officer Noel Somervell Culpan (20)
- Flight Lieutenant Geoffrey Adamson Curry (21)
- Pilot Officer Edmund Alfred John Davies (19)
- Pilot Officer George Edward Deatherage
- Flying Officer Joseph Raymond Jean Marie Desmarais (24)
- Flight Sergeant Alexander Divitcoff (21)
- Pilot Officer Joseph Edward Lawrence Dubois (24)
- Flight Sergeant Percy Alfred Ewins (23)
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Albert Falltrick (23)
- Pilot Officer Edward Joseph Farrell (24)
- Flying Officer Gordon Edmund Bruce Forbes (21)
- Flying Officer Edward George Fox (22)