Kornwestheim

Date

28 January 1945

Target

Kornwestheim

Force dispatched

602 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

86 airmen in this archive died on 28 January 1945 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.

• Flying Officer Norman Godwin Baily (31)
• Wing Commander Nigel William Barker (31)
• Sergeant Reginald Thomas Barter (24)
• Flying Officer Alfred Vincent Eric Bate (31)
• Lieutenant Edward Baxter
• Flying Officer Peter Norham Birt (20)
• Flying Officer John Wilfred Blades
• Sergeant Edward Max Bowman (27)
• Warrant Officer Marshall Vivian Muir Bowness (28)
• Pilot Officer Joseph Henry Brown (23)
• Sergeant Frank Tranter Burgess (22)
• Flight Sergeant John Hunter Carter (22)
• Pilot Officer Russell Edmund Chatfield (32)
• Flying Officer Colin Laidler Chisholm (23)
• Pilot Officer Harold Luther Clark
• Pilot Officer Leslie John Collinson
• Flying Officer Franklin Howard Cummer (21)
• Flying Officer Allan Dalglish (27)
• Flying Officer Douglas Lyle Dewart (21)
• Pilot Officer Gordon James Doyle (23)
• Flight Sergeant John Alexander Emerson (30)
• Flying Officer Allan Llewellyn Evans (24)
• Flight Sergeant Sidney Filipchuk
• Leading Aircraftman Frank Hugh Fisher (22)

See all 86 who died on 28 January →

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