Hanau

Date

17 December 1944

Target

Hanau

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

84 airmen in this archive died on 17 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.

• Sergeant Chester Edward Anderson (20)
• Flying Officer Percy Barlow (35)
• Flying Officer Leslie William Beer
• Flying Officer Kenneth Edwin Harold Bennett (22)
• Flying Officer Joseph Wilfrid Laurier F. Bernier (29)
• Pilot Officer Alfred Goodman-wells Blayney (27)
• Pilot Officer Duncan Stewart Brown (20)
• Flight Lieutenant David Graham Buchanan (23)
• Pilot Officer Robert Wentworth Byrnes (26)
• Flying Officer Robert Leslie Cann (22)
• Flying Officer Harry James Scutchings Cargill (25)
• Pilot Officer Frank Coulson (29)
• Flying Officer Noel Somervell Culpan (20)
• Flight Lieutenant Geoffrey Adamson Curry (21)
• Pilot Officer Edmund Alfred John Davies (19)
• Pilot Officer George Edward Deatherage
• Flying Officer Joseph Raymond Jean Marie Desmarais (24)
• Flight Sergeant Alexander Divitcoff (21)
• Pilot Officer Joseph Edward Lawrence Dubois (24)
• Flight Sergeant Percy Alfred Ewins (23)
• Leading Aircraftman Thomas Albert Falltrick (23)
• Pilot Officer Edward Joseph Farrell (24)
• Flying Officer Gordon Edmund Bruce Forbes (21)
• Flying Officer Edward George Fox (22)

See all 84 who died on 17 December →

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