Bremen
18 August 1944 — Bremen
- Date
- 18 August 1944
- Target
- Bremen, Germany
Narrative
On the night of 18/19 August 1944 a No. 5 Group force attacked Bremen, the great shipbuilding and U-boat city on the Weser, in a concentrated incendiary raid that raised a firestorm and destroyed a large part of the city. It was among the most destructive of the many attacks Bremen suffered, falling on its shipyards and the closely-built districts around them.
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
57 airmen in this archive died on 18 August 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.
- Warrant Officer Ronald John Henry Adcock (22)
- Flight Sergeant Eric James Anderson (20)
- Leading Aircraftman Laurie Everet Atkinson (20)
- Flight Sergeant Herman Backler (21)
- Flight Sergeant James Henry Batt (21)
- Pilot Officer Robert Arthur Brett
- Flying Officer Arthur Keith Buckland (25)
- Pilot Officer Gordon Alan Bullock (20)
- Flying Officer George Cameron (30)
- Flight Sergeant Ian Campbell (28)
- Warrant Officer Class I Robert Edward Clarke (37)
- Corporal Charles Clow (39)
- Flying Officer John Spencer Colville
- Sergeant William Frank Cooper (40)
- Leading Aircraftman George Hamilton Crawford (20)
- Flying Officer Ronald James Currie
- Flying Officer Leo John David Di Marco (24)
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Leslie Dunn (23)
- Flying Officer Robert Withington Easton (20)
- Flight Lieutenant Charles Ernest Fairfield (21)
- Warrant Officer Ronald Desmond Gilbert (22)
- Pilot Officer Ralph Edward Good
- Pilot Officer Alfred Kenneth Green (27)
- Flight Lieutenant Douglas Haig Gross (28)