Ijmuiden

Date

30 December 1944

Target

Ijmuiden

Force dispatched

13 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

48 airmen in this archive died on 30 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 George Howell Barnett
• Flying Officer Donald Howard Bennett (20)
• Flight Sergeant Fred Bennett (27)
• Flying Officer Michael Bernyk (21)
• 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)
• Leading Aircraftman Lawrence Gordon Campbell (19)
• Flight Lieutenant George Michael Carmichael (27)
• Pilot Officer James Edward Cartman (24)
• Flight Sergeant Terence Anthony Casey
• Flight Lieutenant George Neville Chandler (25)
• Flying Officer George Allen Comer (22)
• Flight Sergeant Charles Henry Crease (34)
• Flight Sergeant John Cletus Daze (28)
• Flying Officer Gordon William Duggan (23)
• Flight Lieutenant Robert Nevill Earle (24)
• Warrant Officer Class I Forbes
• Flight Lieutenant John Antony Coulson Fowler (21)
• Flight Sergeant Malcolm James Gordon (21)
• Pilot Officer Kenneth Stewart Hanson (23)
• Flight Sergeant Keith Dickson Howden (21)

See all 48 who died on 30 December →

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