Ludwigshafen
15 May 1944 — Ludwigshafen
- Date
- 15 May 1944
- Target
- Ludwigshafen
- Force dispatched
- 43 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
105 airmen in this archive died on 15 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 Mark Leslie Abramson (30)
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth William Adams (22)
- Sergeant Norman Frederick Alsop (20)
- Flying Officer Charles Ashcroft (27)
- Aircraftman 1st Class Melvin Arnold Backstrom (19)
- Leading Aircraftman David George Barnes (20)
- Flying Officer Ralph William Bartlett (25)
- Pilot Officer Robert Eugene Beadle (22)
- Flying Officer Donald David George Bidwell (20)
- Flight Sergeant Claude Frederick Bish (21)
- Pilot Officer Deryck Hunter Bond (22)
- Flight Sergeant Wallace Bruce Burton (21)
- Flight Sergeant Roger Henri Lucien Closon
- Flying Officer George David Coldwell-horsfall (22)
- Flying Officer Eric James Cole (34)
- Sergeant Donald Lancelot Coleman (24)
- Pilot Officer William Francis Crosbie (29)
- Sergeant Henry Daly (23)
- Flight Sergeant Frank Day (22)
- Flying Officer Walter Robert De Maus (24)
- Sergeant Albert Llewellyn Dix (19)
- Flying Officer Hazen Edward Dougherty (22)
- Flying Officer John Anthony Edgar
- Warrant Officer Andre Emile Eid (23)
See all 105 who died on 15 May →
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →