Politz

Date

21 December 1944

Target

Politz

Force dispatched

136 aircraft

Aircraft lost

3

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) →