Dortmund

Date

2 December 1944

Target

Dortmund, Germany

Force dispatched

94 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

44 airmen in this archive died on 2 December 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 Joseph William Ash (23)
• Leading Aircraftman Laurence Barr (32)
• Leading Aircraftman Charles Stanley Bascom
• Flight Lieutenant Walter Herbert Cook (24)
• Flight Sergeant Bernard William Corrigall (27)
• Flight Sergeant Floyd John Cousins (23)
• Sergeant Robert William Davidson (19)
• Flying Officer Louis Oswald Day (21)
• Lieutenant Owen Douglas De Smidt (24)
• Flying Officer John Ernest Freeman
• Corporal Dennis Guy Furnell
• Second Lieutenant Owen Goschen (21)
• Flying Officer John Edward Grant (31)
• Flight Lieutenant John Carmichael Griffith (29)
• Warrant Officer Class I Frederick Russell Hall
• Flying Officer Norman Douglas Harrison (20)
• Pilot Officer David Philip Lee Hawkins (22)
• Sergeant Edward Hinchey Hodgins (19)
• Flying Officer George Ernest Jones (22)
• Corporal Ronald Lamond Thomson Joy (26)
• Captain John Frederick Kinnery (26)
• Flight Lieutenant John Allan Kirkcaldie (39)
• Wing Commander John Albert Wyatt Lawrence
• Pilot Officer John Ambrose Mahoney (19)

See all 44 who died on 2 December →

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