Siegen
16 December 1944 — Siegen
- Date
- 16 December 1944
- Target
- Siegen
- Force dispatched
- 110 aircraft
- Aircraft lost
- 1
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
40 airmen in this archive died on 16 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 Percy Barlow (35)
- Flying Officer Edgar Barratt
- Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Cupples Beruldsen (22)
- Flight Sergeant Clive Percival Calvert (22)
- Flying Officer Harry James Scutchings Cargill (25)
- Flight Sergeant Ross George Cornwell (22)
- Pilot Officer Frank Coulson (29)
- Flying Officer Noel Somervell Culpan (20)
- Pilot Officer Edmund Alfred John Davies (19)
- Pilot Officer George Edward Deatherage
- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Albert Falltrick (23)
- Warrant Officer Hilton Alfred Hales (22)
- Flight Lieutenant Reginald Alfred Hast (23)
- Flying Officer George Donald Frederick Hetherington (23)
- Pilot Officer Raymond Ervin Hine
- Flying Officer Donald George Henry Ireland
- Corporal Graham John Jefferies (24)
- Sergeant Wilfred John Lawrence (22)
- Flying Officer John Lyle Leckie (27)
- Flying Officer James Maxwell Levey (27)
- Squadron Leader Roger Meredith Mace (30)
- Pilot Officer Melvin Joshua Macleod (28)
- Flight Sergeant David William McCray (20)
See all 40 who died on 16 December →
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →