Rüsselsreim
25 August 1944 — Rüsselsreim
- Date
- 25 August 1944
- Target
- Rüsselsreim
- Force dispatched
- 13 aircraft
- Aircraft lost
- 23
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
93 airmen in this archive died on 25 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.
- Pilot Officer Alexander John Anderson (22)
- Pilot Officer Howard Francis Anderson (20)
- Pilot Officer Richard Stockdale Barker (28)
- Pilot Officer David Russell Barnard (26)
- Flight Sergeant Albert Norman James Billing (21)
- Squadron Leader Walter Douglas Wilberforce Bird (28)
- Flight Sergeant James Attewood Boatswain (21)
- Flying Officer Vernon Harry Bolton (21)
- Warrant Officer Class I John Keith Brown (21)
- Flight Sergeant Reginald John Bucirde (20)
- Flight Sergeant Norman George Albert Burges (19)
- Flying Officer Allan William Campbell (26)
- Sergeant Norman Catton (28)
- Flight Lieutenant Eric Rodger Church
- Flying Officer Darrell Owen Connolly (28)
- Flight Sergeant James Ross Court (22)
- Flying Officer Norman Edward Cousins (29)
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth George Curtis (21)
- Flying Officer James Atkinson Dale (27)
- Flying Officer Gordon Edward Dix (25)
- Flying Officer Archibald Donald Doner
- Warrant Officer Class I Herbert Lloyd Dowland (25)
- Pilot Officer James Douglas Duffin
- Sergeant William Agustus Dyer (20)
See all 93 who died on 25 August →
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →