Trier

Date

21 December 1944

Target

Trier

Force dispatched

114 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

38 airmen in this archive died on 21 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.

• Flight Lieutenant Francis Leslie Barcroft (35)
• Pilot Officer Frederick Oliver Booth (28)
• Flying Officer Vernon John Bouchard (25)
• Flying Officer Thomas Hudson Cambridge (21)
• Flight Sergeant George James Cheyne (28)
• Leading Aircraftman George Eric Clay (30)
• Sergeant John Joseph Connolly (40)
• Lieutenant Gerald Patrick Cronin
• Flight Sergeant Norman Harold Davis (23)
• Flying Officer Harry Denis Davy
• Captain Roy Noel Day (27)
• Air Corporal De Kock
• Pilot Officer James Frederick Devitt (22)
• Flying Officer William Reginald Fair (22)
• Flying Officer Ronald Frederick Feilberg (27)
• Squadron Leader Stanley Joseph Fulton (26)
• Flying Officer Clement Joseph Greenwood (32)
• Flying Officer Roger Hubert Halsted (21)
• Flying Officer Allan Watson Heughan (26)
• Lieutenant Jooste (34)
• Pilot Officer George Herbert Kendall
• Air Corporal Kilburn
• Lieutenant Allan Learmonth (19)
• Flight Sergeant Leonard Edric James Miller (24)

See all 38 who died on 21 December →

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