Homberg

Date

16 July 1944

Target

Homberg

Force dispatched

50 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

57 airmen in this archive died on 16 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.

• Flight Lieutenant Walter Colin Ahrens (21)
• Flight Sergeant Paul Andersen (20)
• Warrant Officer Benjamin George Blatch (21)
• Pilot Officer Michael James Wallace Cantwell (18)
• Leading Aircraftman Albert Royal Felken Cook (24)
• Pilot Officer James Foxall Crossley (24)
• Warrant Officer Lewis Clement De Garis (22)
• Warrant Officer Class I Deitch
• Lieutenant Dutton (27)
• Flying Officer James Alwyn Ewen (25)
• Lieutenant Ferreira
• Sergeant Richard George Foster (22)
• Warrant Officer Class I Joseph Wilfred Romeo Fournier (27)
• Squadron Leader Walter William Beresford Gale (24)
• Flight Lieutenant Desmond Edward James Gardiner (41)
• Pilot Officer Frederick George Graham (21)
• Lieutenant Grobler
• Flying Officer Dermot John Hegarty (23)
• Sergeant Herbert Dennis Hoare
• Warrant Officer William Hobman (28)
• Leading Aircraftman John Sinclair Holmes (22)
• Flight Sergeant Robert Owen Gregory Ives (21)
• Flight Sergeant Leonard Samuel Charles Jackson (30)
• Flight Sergeant Arthur Hedley Jenkins (20)

See all 57 who died on 16 July →

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