Hannover

Date

13 August 1944

Target

Hannover

Force dispatched

50 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

154 airmen in this archive died on 13 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.

• Flying Officer Douglas Andrew Adams
• Flight Sergeant John Alfred Adams (21)
• Flight Sergeant William Ronald Andrew (22)
• Pilot Officer John French Andrews (30)
• Pilot Officer Eric Ball (24)
• Warrant Officer Class I Bezuidenhout
• Flying Officer John Bilbe (33)
• Pilot Officer Joseph Patrick Birmingham
• Flight Sergeant Eric Alan Bock (21)
• Flying Officer Charles Stewart Bogle (21)
• Flying Officer Kenneth Brayne
• Flight Lieutenant William Wood Lindsay Brown (27)
• Flight Sergeant Irvin Gordon Thomas Brownlee
• Flying Officer Robert James Burns (30)
• Flight Sergeant John Kean Burnside (32)
• Pilot Officer Henry Andrew Burt (32)
• Flying Officer John Harold Busby (24)
• Flight Sergeant Roy Wallace Butler (19)
• Flight Sergeant Ronald Sutton Camier (20)
• Lieutenant F. Russell Campbell (18)
• Lieutenant Caro (27)
• Warrant Officer Class I Victor Carroll (26)
• Pilot Officer Orville Francis Compton (22)
• Lieutenant Percy Gordon Coutts

See all 154 who died on 13 August →

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