Husum

Date

26 April 1945

Target

Husum

Force dispatched

1,006 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

40 airmen in this archive died on 26 April 1945 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 Charles Frederick Brown (21)
• Flying Officer Edward Dale Brydon
• Flight Lieutenant John Alan Burkitt (26)
• Flight Sergeant Ralph Franklin Carrodus (23)
• Warrant Officer Gordon Henry Dixon (31)
• Flying Officer William John Edwards (25)
• Flying Officer Cedric John Evans (22)
• Flight Lieutenant George Walter John Fenwick (31)
• Flight Sergeant Robert Slessor Geddes (34)
• Pilot Officer Oswald Ernest Goddard (22)
• Pilot Officer Ronald Bede Goodwin (21)
• Captain Gould (35)
• Flight Lieutenant Kilburn Howard Grist
• Warrant Officer Keith Lambert Hamilton (20)
• Flying Officer Lloyd Peter Hedley (23)
• Flight Sergeant Kenneth George William Henderson (19)
• Flight Lieutenant Ernest Leslie Holden (22)
• Flying Officer Eric Hurrell (25)
• Flight Sergeant Allan Francis Juby
• Pilot Officer Albert Roy Knight (21)
• Flying Officer Herbert Oswald Krause (19)
• Flying Officer James Meyrick Larkin (30)
• Flying Officer John Raymond Liddell (20)
• Flight Sergeant Ian James Loveridge (24)

See all 40 who died on 26 April →

Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →