Frankfurt

Date

30 August 1944

Target

Frankfurt, Germany

Force dispatched

42 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

170 airmen in this archive died on 30 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.

• Flight Sergeant Stanley Arthur Abbott (21)
• Flight Sergeant Thomas Adcock (24)
• Sergeant Christopher Alexander
• Flight Sergeant Paul Druce Arthur (22)
• Flying Officer Thomas Baillie (24)
• Pilot Officer John Leslie Bairstow (25)
• Sergeant George Henry Barr (19)
• Warrant Officer Noel Charles Barrett (21)
• Sergeant William Seymour Barton (24)
• Flying Officer Robert Henry Beddoe (21)
• Flying Officer James Ralph Beveridge (26)
• Flight Sergeant Peter Gorbell Bignell (24)
• Pilot Officer William Henry Billing
• Warrant Officer John James Dew Bonfield (25)
• Flying Officer Alan John Brady (23)
• Sergeant Frederick David Bristow (21)
• Sergeant George Brown
• Flying Officer William Wallace Brown (30)
• Flying Officer Walter John Calverley (26)
• Flying Officer Clare Reid Cameron
• Pilot Officer Henry William Tilson Carter (26)
• Sergeant Murray Gordon Casey (19)
• Flight Sergeant Alfred Reid Chalmers
• Flying Officer Robert Lloyd Chambers (21)

See all 170 who died on 30 August →

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