Oboe

Date

27 December 1944

Target

Oboe

Force dispatched

51 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

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) →