Hagen

Date

4 December 1944

Target

Hagen, Germany

Force dispatched

14 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

104 airmen in this archive died on 4 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 Christian Abildgaard (21)
• Flight Sergeant Douglas George Allbon (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Raymond Lloyd Annand-smith (27)
• Flying Officer Philip Peter Awad (21)
• Flight Sergeant Robert James Barr (19)
• Flight Sergeant Arie Gordon Baxter (21)
• Lieutenant Philip August Becker
• Sergeant Joseph Jean Paul Osias Berlinguette (20)
• Pilot Officer Albert Louis Bonany
• Flying Officer Joseph Rufin Boudreau
• Sergeant Leonard Jack Bowick (20)
• Warrant Officer James Kemble Brill (24)
• Flying Officer Eric Ivor Britton (25)
• Flight Sergeant John Lane Brosnan (20)
• Flying Officer Gordon Roch Campbell (25)
• Sergeant William McDonald Campbell (33)
• Flying Officer Albert Victor Carter (22)
• Leading Aircraftman Maxwell Harold Cassidy (19)
• Flying Officer Stanley Victor Chambers
• Sergeant George Albert Chevrier (19)
• Flight Sergeant William Michael Ching (20)
• Pilot Officer Arthur Henry Clarke (31)
• Flying Officer Kenneth Roy Collier (24)
• Sergeant Ernest Newton Cook (37)

See all 104 who died on 4 December →

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