Stuttgart

Date

27 July 1944

Target

Stuttgart, Germany

Force dispatched

12 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

56 airmen in this archive died on 27 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.

• Flying Officer Ambrose Bain (29)
• Sergeant John Arnold Breadner (29)
• Pilot Officer John Donald Buchanan (22)
• Flying Officer Joseph Alphonse Carmen Campeau
• Flying Officer John Christie (32)
• Flying Officer John Thomas Clifford (28)
• Pilot Officer Leon Albert Dessert (24)
• Lieutenant Dickinson (19)
• Air Mechanic Dukas (19)
• Lieutenant Du Plessis (30)
• Flight Sergeant Ralph Alan Dutneall (21)
• Warrant Officer Class II Albert Ellis (39)
• Squadron Leader Lawrence Denis Emblem
• Corporal Ernest Flaskett
• Sergeant Hugh Allen Foster (22)
• Warrant Officer Class II Thomas Francis Galbraith (29)
• Flight Lieutenant John Gilmour (24)
• Pilot Officer John Reginald Cecil Gutcher
• Warrant Officer Allan Harold John Harris (23)
• Flying Officer Balfour Richard John Hay (21)
• Pilot Officer James Wallace Hocking (21)
• Flight Lieutenant William Gladstone Hoffman (21)
• Flying Officer Ralph Alexander Johnstone (22)
• Flying Officer Alexander Lindsay

See all 56 who died on 27 July →

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