Homberg

Date

11 July 1944

Target

Homberg

Force dispatched

21 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

31 airmen in this archive died on 11 July 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 Walter Edward Atkinson (24)
• Pilot Officer James Trevor Ayton (24)
• Flight Lieutenant John Douglas Best
• Leading Aircraftman John McDowell Booth (27)
• Sergeant George Douglas Britland (27)
• Pilot Officer Robert Clarke (bob) Buckberrough (22)
• Sergeant Charles Eric Bush (30)
• Flying Officer William Arthur Corley (29)
• Sergeant Francis George Grieve (19)
• Flight Lieutenant Thomas Hubert Oscar Hallihan
• Flight Sergeant Wesley Benjamin Hunniford (24)
• Squadron Leader Mervyn Robert Bruce Ingram (22)
• Leading Aircraftman William Joseph Kenny (48)
• Sergeant Neil John Kidney (21)
• Flying Officer Johnny Peter Kolomic (20)
• Flying Officer Robert Edward Lee (24)
• Flying Officer Archibald Allisdair Matheson (29)
• Warrant Officer Class I Robert Kirk Moore (22)
• Air Mechanic Morton (17)
• Pilot Officer Murray Adamson Nagel (20)
• Lieutenant Naylor (22)
• Flying Officer Edward Charles Radford (21)
• Pilot Officer Ernest Anson Shaw (30)
• Sergeant Raymond Frank Simmons (22)

See all 31 who died on 11 July →

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