Limburg
23 December 1944 — Limburg
- Date
- 23 December 1944
- Command
- Bomber Command
- Target
- Limburg
- Force dispatched
- 62 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
66 airmen in this archive died on 23 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.
- Pilot Officer William Bruce Allan (21)
- Pilot Officer Kenneth Harry Austin
- Flying Officer Joseph Ronald Beasley (24)
- Flight Sergeant Norman Collis Boyd (23)
- Pilot Officer Roy Frederick Breen (21)
- Flying Officer Grant Wallace Browne (30)
- Flight Sergeant William John Byrne (30)
- Pilot Officer Frederick William Campbell (29)
- Flight Lieutenant Eric Charles Carpenter (25)
- Squadron Leader Albert Leslie Carter (29)
- Flying Officer Alexander Anthony Christie (21)
- Pilot Officer Richard Joseph Clarke (26)
- Pilot Officer Thomas Eugene Craddock (25)
- Flying Officer Duncan Herbert Cumming
- Sergeant Manley Morton Cummins (20)
- Pilot Officer Donald Russell Currie (21)
- Pilot Officer Gerald Roch D'Amour (19)
- Flight Sergeant Graham Fowler Day (20)
- Flight Sergeant Cyril Keith Deed (25)
- Flight Sergeant Robert John Dickie (20)
- Flight Sergeant Patrick Clifford Doherty
- Warrant Officer Ronald Arthur Dowe (20)
- Flying Officer William Thomas Dunkeld (23)
- Corporal Robert Edward Dutton (22)
See all 66 who died on 23 December →
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →