Karlsruhe
4 December 1944 — Karlsruhe
- Date
- 4 December 1944
- Target
- Karlsruhe, Germany
Narrative
Karlsruhe, a Rhine city with railways and industry feeding the German front in the west, was heavily attacked in early December 1944. The bombing destroyed a large part of the centre, one of several blows the city suffered as Bomber Command supported the Allied advance towards the Rhine in the war’s final winter.
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
104 airmen in this archive died on 4 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.
- Pilot Officer Christian Abildgaard (21)
- Flight Sergeant Douglas George Allbon (22)
- Flight Lieutenant Raymond Lloyd Annand-smith (27)
- Flying Officer Philip Peter Awad (21)
- Flight Sergeant Robert James Barr (19)
- Flight Sergeant Arie Gordon Baxter (21)
- Lieutenant Philip August Becker
- Sergeant Joseph Jean Paul Osias Berlinguette (20)
- Pilot Officer Albert Louis Bonany
- Flying Officer Joseph Rufin Boudreau
- Sergeant Leonard Jack Bowick (20)
- Warrant Officer James Kemble Brill (24)
- Flying Officer Eric Ivor Britton (25)
- Flight Sergeant John Lane Brosnan (20)
- Flying Officer Gordon Roch Campbell (25)
- Sergeant William McDonald Campbell (33)
- Flying Officer Albert Victor Carter (22)
- Leading Aircraftman Maxwell Harold Cassidy (19)
- Flying Officer Stanley Victor Chambers
- Sergeant George Albert Chevrier (19)
- Flight Sergeant William Michael Ching (20)
- Pilot Officer Arthur Henry Clarke (31)
- Flying Officer Kenneth Roy Collier (24)
- Sergeant Ernest Newton Cook (37)
See all 104 who died on 4 December →
Source: Wikipedia — Karlsruhe →