Frankfurt

Date

4 February 1944

Target

Frankfurt, Germany

Force dispatched

28 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

112 airmen in this archive died on 4 February 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.

• Flight Sergeant James Anderson (21)
• Flying Officer Alan Greeves Archibald (33)
• Warrant Officer Alfred Stewart Arnold (25)
• Sergeant Joseph Louis Barber (21)
• Warrant Officer Stanley Beaton (27)
• Flight Lieutenant Deryck Addison Bell (25)
• Sergeant Eric Bennett (31)
• Flight Sergeant William John Barrie Bishop (21)
• Flying Officer Norman Peter Blacklock
• Flight Lieutenant Peter Harden Goyen Blight (24)
• Flight Sergeant Henry Arnold Booth
• Leading Aircraftman Jim Bradley (23)
• Flying Officer Ronald William Bremner (21)
• Flying Officer Richard Samuel Henry Browning
• Leading Aircraftman Frederick Cecil Bull (23)
• Warrant Officer Class I Alfred G.t. Burnett (35)
• Flight Sergeant Alan Campbell (26)
• Sergeant John Carless (22)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas Carling (18)
• Sergeant John Walter Churchman (22)
• Sergeant Henry Denton Clough (21)
• Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Thomas Cox (22)
• Flying Officer Francis Thomas Culling-mannix (26)
• Flight Sergeant Leslie Darlington

See all 112 who died on 4 February →

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