Ludwigshafen

Date

6 June 1944

Target

Ludwigshafen

Force dispatched

19 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

130 airmen in this archive died on 6 June 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 Ethan Allen (25)
• Flying Officer Leonard Ralph Allman (24)
• Flying Officer James K. Anderson (24)
• Sergeant Kenneth Raymond Ansell (22)
• Flight Sergeant Edward Harry Frederick Atkinson (22)
• Flying Officer Thomas Frederick Barker (27)
• Warrant Officer Bruce George Barton (21)
• Flying Officer Joseph Francis Terence Beesley (21)
• Sergeant Ernest Leonard Belcher (22)
• Warrant Officer Class I Nathan Louis Berger (22)
• Flying Officer Douglas Gordon Biggs
• Flying Officer Francis Allan Boyce
• Corporal Harry Wilfred Boyd (23)
• Flying Officer William Stanley Brennan (32)
• Flight Lieutenant Wallace Hilton Brown (36)
• Flying Officer Ronald Henry Buchan-hepburn (21)
• Flight Sergeant Malcolm Robert Burgess (21)
• Flying Officer Alexander Donaldson Callander (21)
• Sergeant Marshall William Card (23)
• Pilot Officer Roy Frank Carol
• Flight Lieutenant Maurice Henry Carter (30)
• Flying Officer Irvine Nathaniel Caskey (24)
• Pilot Officer James Chute Chalmers (21)
• Flying Officer James Harrison Clark (24)

See all 130 who died on 6 June →

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