Witten
12 December 1944 — Witten
- Date
- 12 December 1944
- Target
- Witten
- Force dispatched
- 148 aircraft
- Aircraft lost
- 8
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
47 airmen in this archive died on 12 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.
- Wing Commander Richard Ashley Atkinson (30)
- Flying Officer George Richard Barry (23)
- Flying Officer Stanley James Bethel (24)
- Flying Officer Ernest Henry Brautigam (19)
- Warrant Officer Glyn Norman Bury (26)
- Pilot Officer Kerry Gavan Byrnes (27)
- Lieutenant Campbell
- Squadron Leader James Clark (29)
- Flying Officer Leonard John Draheim (24)
- Flying Officer Philip Edwin Edwards (31)
- Flight Lieutenant Harry Sinclair Ellis (26)
- Flight Lieutenant Norman Grantley George (24)
- Sergeant Gordon Grant Goehring (21)
- Flight Sergeant Mark Goldwater
- Flight Lieutenant Bertram Edward William Hall (31)
- Flight Lieutenant Ronald Martin Herapath (20)
- Air Corporal Kalis
- Flying Officer Arthur Alexander Kennedy (22)
- Flight Sergeant Reginald John Ketley-rolph (21)
- Flight Sergeant Ivor Russell Lemaistre (20)
- Flight Sergeant James William Brighton Lennard (20)
- Flight Sergeant David Levine (23)
- Sergeant Neville Alfred L'Green (20)
- Pilot Officer Gerald Lawrence Lister (22)
See all 47 who died on 12 December →
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →