Castrop-rauxel
6 August 1944 — Castrop-rauxel
- Date
- 6 August 1944
- Target
- Castrop-rauxel
- Force dispatched
- 22 aircraft
- Aircraft lost
- 1
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
51 airmen in this archive died on 6 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.
- Lieutenant Anderson (27)
- Flight Sergeant John James Bales (21)
- Flight Lieutenant Francis Reginald Barker (23)
- Pilot Officer William Arthur James Bennet (21)
- Warrant Officer Robert Jack Braddock (26)
- Flight Lieutenant George Brown (25)
- Sergeant William Irvin Bruce (20)
- Flying Officer Geoffrey Charles Bucknell (33)
- Warrant Officer John Samuel McClelland Campbell (21)
- Pilot Officer Earl Stanley Cary (27)
- Second Lieutenant Clark (22)
- Flight Sergeant Vernon Edward Clark (23)
- Sergeant Frederick Hugh Conaghan (20)
- Sergeant William Logan Dalglish (20)
- Flight Sergeant Ernest William Donkin (24)
- Flight Lieutenant Warren Alvin Duffy (21)
- Sergeant John William Ellis (20)
- Flight Sergeant Leonard Allan Eunson (24)
- Flying Officer Edward Clason Gates (21)
- Lieutenant Colonel Ginn (44)
- Flying Officer Alexander Thomas Gorman (29)
- Flying Officer Leslie Arthur Green (26)
- Warrant Officer Arthur Keith Griesbach (21)
- Warrant Officer Class I Gordon Fletcher Harrison
See all 51 who died on 6 August →
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →