Troisdorf
29 December 1944 — Troisdorf
- Date
- 29 December 1944
- Target
- Troisdorf
- Force dispatched
- 197 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
56 airmen in this archive died on 29 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 Raymond Francis Adam (20)
- Pilot Officer George Howell Barnett
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth Henry Barnett (20)
- Lieutenant John Rollo Forbes Biggs (21)
- Flight Lieutenant William Nicholas Bingham (25)
- Lieutenant Booyzen
- Squadron Leader Thomas Sutherland Brotherstone (31)
- Flight Sergeant Lance Cain (31)
- Pilot Officer James Edward Cartman (24)
- Pilot Officer Roy Clifford Conley
- Pilot Officer Frederick Stanley Dennis
- Flying Officer Howard Raymond Dryer (20)
- Pilot Officer Jacob Feldman
- Warrant Officer Class I Forbes
- Flying Officer Gerald Gordon Fox (21)
- Lieutenant Howard Thomas Funkey (24)
- Flight Sergeant Albert Edward Gillings (48)
- Flight Sergeant Malcolm James Gordon (21)
- Flight Lieutenant Francis Brooke Pickard Gregory
- Pilot Officer Alan Wardell Haley (21)
- Sergeant Thomas Raymond Harrigan
- Warrant Officer Raymond Richard Lindsay Hawke (29)
- Sergeant John Andrew Heenan (20)
- Warrant Officer Class II Huskisson (18)
See all 56 who died on 29 December →
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →