Frankfurt

Date

7 February 1944

Target

Frankfurt, Germany

Force dispatched

19 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

118 airmen in this archive died on 7 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 Lieutenant John Frederick Acer (38)
• Leading Aircraftman Roy Arthur Airey (25)
• Pilot Officer Arthur Robson Armitage (21)
• Flying Officer Thomas Wilfred Baptie (34)
• Sergeant Alan Peyman Bashforth (22)
• Sergeant Sidney James Booker
• Flight Sergeant Stanley Bright (22)
• Sergeant Douglas Arthur Brooks
• Sergeant John Alderton Brown (22)
• Sergeant Duncan McVey Carkner (26)
• Flying Officer Gerald Dennis Carroll (21)
• Pilot Officer Joseph Lucien Anatole Champoux
• Flight Lieutenant Donald Hartford Clark (25)
• Sergeant Stephen Wallace Clarke (29)
• Leading Aircraftman William Joseph Clegg (22)
• Sergeant Ronald Denis Clement (22)
• Flight Sergeant Thomas Charles Climpson
• Sergeant John Robert Colnet
• Sergeant Ronald Samuel Conroy (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Victor James Thomas Cooke (21)
• Sergeant Herbert John Couling (20)
• Flying Officer Geoffrey Arthur Austin Croskell (25)
• Sergeant Frederick William Samuel Cross (34)
• Flight Sergeant Wilfred Herbert Aloysius Daly (25)

See all 118 who died on 7 February →

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