Homberg

Date

27 August 1944

Target

Homberg

Force dispatched

243 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

92 airmen in this archive died on 27 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.

• Sergeant Clifford Charles Addems (22)
• Lieutenant Alexander (23)
• Flight Sergeant Walter Henry John Barnes (24)
• Flying Officer Louis Walter Allan Bauer (29)
• Pilot Officer William Samuel Baxter (22)
• Flying Officer John Bell (24)
• Flying Officer Hugh Geoffrey Bickerton (30)
• Flying Officer Royden Garfield Bradley (21)
• Pilot Officer Howard Charles Braun
• Squadron Leader James Hardie Brown (27)
• Flight Sergeant William Clyde Brown (29)
• Pilot Officer William Stewart Bryans (25)
• Flight Sergeant Peter Giblin Caddy (20)
• Flying Officer James Gordon Cahir (24)
• Warrant Officer William John Carrier (21)
• Flying Officer Gavin Keith Henry Christensen (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Austin Thomas Clark (26)
• Warrant Officer Class I Creux
• Flight Lieutenant Charles Edmond Darby
• Flight Lieutenant Frederick James Dee
• Leading Aircraftman Loyd Anson Gray Dunbar (31)
• Flight Sergeant Bruce Douglas Dyer (20)
• Flight Sergeant Colin John Falconer (21)
• Pilot Officer Wilfred James Fingland

See all 92 who died on 27 August →

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