Siegen

Date

15 December 1944

Target

Siegen

Force dispatched

155 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

27 airmen in this archive died on 15 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.

• Leading Aircraftman William Edward Barham (19)
• Flying Officer Edgar Barratt
• Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Cupples Beruldsen (22)
• Corporal Robert Emerson Bruce
• Flight Sergeant Clive Percival Calvert (22)
• Flight Sergeant Ross George Cornwell (22)
• Flying Officer Cecil Alexander Dickson (24)
• Flying Officer Alec Otley Ellis (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Harold Lundy Flynn (23)
• Flight Lieutenant Horace Brougham Hillcoat (31)
• Flight Lieutenant Frederick Blair La Brish
• Flight Lieutenant Charles Albert Lambert
• Squadron Leader Roger Meredith Mace (30)
• Leading Aircraftman Ivor Douglas Marshall
• Flying Officer Eric William McCann (23)
• Warrant Officer John Norman Messenger (25)
• Flight Lieutenant William Stewart Pullar (26)
• Flying Officer David Brownlee Robertson (24)
• Sergeant Glen Russell Rodman (19)
• Flight Lieutenant Alfred John De Laune Ruttledge (30)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Ian Lloyd Selway (18)
• Flight Lieutenant Douglas Haig Sharpe (28)
• Corporal Gordon Arthur Symmonds (20)
• Corporal Dick Townsend

See all 27 who died on 15 December →

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