Homberg

Date

25 June 1944

Target

Homberg

Force dispatched

66 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

90 airmen in this archive died on 25 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.

• Pilot Officer Douglas Earl Aiken (23)
• Pilot Officer James William Alcorn (20)
• Flying Officer William Long Baker (25)
• Flight Sergeant Bramwell Rockliff Barber (20)
• Flight Sergeant George William Bateman (32)
• Flight Sergeant Benjamin William Bateson (22)
• Flight Sergeant Reginald Kenneth Begg (21)
• Flight Sergeant Thomas Bell (24)
• Pilot Officer Arthur Albert William Berryman (29)
• Flight Sergeant William Beutel (20)
• Pilot Officer Herbert Blaydes (28)
• Warrant Officer Richmond Antony Barrett Blumer (23)
• Flight Lieutenant William Wrixon Boylson (25)
• Flight Lieutenant Frank Cecil Bremner
• Flight Sergeant Herbert Kenith Brown (21)
• Lieutenant Brummer (28)
• Warrant Officer Class II Lloyd Weldon Burnside (22)
• Warrant Officer Hubert George Carlyle (30)
• Flight Lieutenant Barrington Farr Cleeton (21)
• Flying Officer Frank Peter Clegg (21)
• Flight Sergeant Francis Anthony Coady (19)
• Flight Sergeant Dalton Morgan Corbett (29)
• Flight Lieutenant Roland Reginald Cowan (24)
• Flight Sergeant Finlay Ewart Munro Crawford (20)

See all 90 who died on 25 June →

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