Frankfurt

Date

29 July 1944

Target

Frankfurt, Germany

Force dispatched

36 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

260 airmen in this archive died on 29 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 Hugh Alexander Adams
• Pilot Officer William Murray Aldred
• Flying Officer Ian Sutherland Alexander
• Flying Officer Ian Mackenzie Angus (22)
• Flying Officer Robert William Archer (29)
• Flying Officer John Keith Armstrong (24)
• Flight Sergeant Roland Ashworth (25)
• Pilot Officer Arthur Ernest Attewell (22)
• Flying Officer Francis Henry Baggs (25)
• Flying Officer Norman Bailey
• Sergeant Raymond Barnes (25)
• Pilot Officer Thomas Cranston Barton (21)
• Pilot Officer George Robert Baumann
• Sergeant Earl Hume Beatson (22)
• Flying Officer Jean Joseph Donnelly Belanger (20)
• Flying Officer Dallas Eugene Belt (25)
• Flying Officer Richard Jack Bennett (21)
• Pilot Officer Bruce George Betts (25)
• Flying Officer Peter Joseph Biollo (20)
• Pilot Officer Ernest Howard Bishop (23)
• Pilot Officer Joseph Laurent Andre Blais
• Pilot Officer Ian Edward Blance (21)
• Wing Commander John Donald Blane (32)
• Pilot Officer Colin John Blyth (25)

See all 260 who died on 29 July →

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