Leverkusen

Date

10 December 1943

Target

Leverkusen

Force dispatched

25 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

67 airmen in this archive died on 10 December 1943 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 Cyril Denis Barney (35)
• Flying Officer James Robertson Grant Bathgate (23)
• Leading Aircraftman Roger Vincent Blechynden (24)
• Warrant Officer Kenneth Leslie Owen Blow (22)
• Flight Sergeant Gordon Milton Boon (21)
• Sergeant Eric Wilfred Brown (20)
• Flight Sergeant Russell Victor Henry Brown (21)
• Wing Commander Peter Robert Burton-gyles
• Pilot Officer David Edward Cake (21)
• Flight Sergeant James Gilmour Campbell (22)
• Warrant Officer Class II William Roy Chester (23)
• Leading Aircraftman Cecil Alfred James Colegate (23)
• Flight Lieutenant William Edward Comber (38)
• Flying Officer Eugene Cotton
• Warrant Officer Class II Robert Cummings
• Leading Aircraftman Walter Willard Dafoe (46)
• Flight Sergeant Nicholas Doherty (20)
• Sergeant Arthur William Ellis (32)
• Lieutenant Patrick Ellis
• Sergeant John Foote (20)
• Leading Aircraftman Frank Norman Fox (30)
• Flying Officer Michael Lewis Brownlow Frankson (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Albert William Goddard (27)
• Sergeant Eric Harris

See all 67 who died on 10 December →

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