Rheydt

Date

27 December 1944

Target

Rheydt

Force dispatched

213 aircraft

Aircraft lost

1

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

46 airmen in this archive died on 27 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 Joseph Atkinson
• Pilot Officer Charles Raymond Bradley
• Corporal Robert William Brown (36)
• Flying Officer Chester Merrill Buell
• Flying Officer Lloyd John Gordon Catheralle (23)
• Pilot Officer Bernard Victor Cobbett (20)
• Lieutenant Anthony Ewart Collett (20)
• Flight Sergeant Trevor Walter Coombridge (21)
• Pilot Officer Vincent Harold Coyne (27)
• Flying Officer Joseph Patrick Leonard Cullen (25)
• Flying Officer Arthur Allen Dixon
• Flying Officer Bertram Ernest Drewery (25)
• Flying Officer Robert Allan Ebber
• Lieutenant Michael Flynn (21)
• Warrant Officer Robert James Frizzell (29)
• Flight Sergeant James Raymond Giblin (27)
• Flying Officer Bevan Mason Hall (22)
• Flying Officer Sydney Dalton Hewson (21)
• Flying Officer Frederick Winston How (22)
• Pilot Officer Cecil David Benjamin Hubley (20)
• Warrant Officer David Wise Jones (21)
• Flight Sergeant Karl Emerson Kelly (20)
• Flying Officer Albert Thomas Le Blanc (19)
• Warrant Officer Neil Evan McLeod Macdonald (23)

See all 46 who died on 27 December →

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