Lohausen

Date

24 December 1944

Target

Lohausen

Force dispatched

338 aircraft

Aircraft lost

6

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

49 airmen in this archive died on 24 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)
• Flying Officer Joseph Ronald Beasley (24)
• Flying Officer Alexander George Borland (21)
• Pilot Officer Roy Frederick Breen (21)
• Flying Officer Grant Wallace Browne (30)
• Flight Sergeant William John Byrne (30)
• Flying Officer Duncan Herbert Cumming
• Sergeant Manley Morton Cummins (20)
• 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)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Kolman Florence (23)
• Sergeant John Watson Fraser (25)
• Flight Lieutenant Walter Louis Friker
• Flying Officer Raymond Wallace Hale (21)
• Warrant Officer Class I Hamilton (21)
• Flying Officer Charles Frederick Joseph Harwood
• Warrant Officer John Wallace Mills Herbert (20)
• Flying Officer David Garfield Kellar (28)
• Warrant Officer Class II Metro Alex Krewenchuk (22)

See all 49 who died on 24 December →

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