Leverkusen

Date

2 May 1944

Target

Leverkusen

Force dispatched

38 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 2 May 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 Alexander Stewart Aird (21)
• Sergeant Henry Thomas Alpe (20)
• Flying Officer Maurice Reuben Joein Anderson (40)
• Sergeant Frederick James Arbon (20)
• Sergeant Leonard Victor Ashton
• Sergeant Harry Astrand (21)
• Flying Officer Thomas Guy Atkinson (21)
• Flying Officer James Alexander Bailie (32)
• Flight Sergeant John Baker (21)
• Sergeant Earl Freiman Baldry (20)
• Flying Officer Harold Weston Batt (32)
• Warrant Officer Class II Murray Richard Bell
• Flight Sergeant Ronald Frederick Bickford (21)
• Flight Sergeant Donald Lloyd Brett
• Warrant Officer Trevor Richmond Broadbent
• Flight Sergeant Alfred George Brown (27)
• Leading Aircraftman Frederick Bryant (28)
• Flying Officer Harold Cherberd Bryant (32)
• Pilot Officer John Louis Edmond Chartrand
• Flight Sergeant Leslie Newell Clark (22)
• Sergeant Ronald Claxton
• Sergeant Samuel Joseph Clayton
• Flight Sergeant John Edgar Clift (21)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Frederick Lewis Cochshott (22)

See all 130 who died on 2 May →

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