Ludwigshafen

Date

4 May 1944

Target

Ludwigshafen

Force dispatched

28 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

370 airmen in this archive died on 4 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.

• Flying Officer Clifford Wilmore Abbott (26)
• Warrant Officer Henry James Addison (22)
• Flight Sergeant Michael Edwin Agar
• Flight Sergeant Sydney Wilson Ainsworth
• Warrant Officer Eric Alfred Aldred
• Flying Officer William Jack Allingham (27)
• Sergeant Richard Walter Andrews
• Sergeant Kenneth Applegarth (20)
• Flying Officer Theodore Edward Archard (32)
• Sergeant Ronald Frank Arnold
• Flying Officer Walter Gerard Asbell (23)
• Sergeant Reginald Herbert Asplin (29)
• Pilot Officer Cyril Atkinson (27)
• Flying Officer Robert Avery (21)
• Flight Sergeant Eric Bailey (23)
• Sergeant James Bailey (19)
• Pilot Officer Francis William Baker
• Flying Officer George Baker
• Flight Sergeant George Charles Barber (32)
• Sergeant Raymond Barker (22)
• Pilot Officer Percy James William Barkway
• Flight Sergeant Dennis Ronald Barr (20)
• Flight Sergeant Stanley James Barr (22)
• Lieutenant Barter (22)

See all 370 who died on 4 May →

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