Reisholz
20 May 1944 — Reisholz
- Date
- 20 May 1944
- Command
- Bomber Command
- Target
- Reisholz
- Force dispatched
- 18 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
125 airmen in this archive died on 20 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 James Alexander Abbott (35)
- Flying Officer Sydney Louis Anderson (26)
- Warrant Officer Frederick William Atherton (29)
- Pilot Officer Samuel Stephen Atkin (22)
- Flight Lieutenant George Edward Bailey (29)
- Corporal Charles Gordon Baker (20)
- Squadron Leader John Baker (28)
- Flying Officer Robert John Barber
- Wing Commander James Fraser Barron (23)
- Aircraftman 2nd Class Wenzl Matthew Bayer (27)
- Flight Lieutenant David Patrick Murray Bell (21)
- Warrant Officer Class II Joseph Willie Yvon Bibeau
- Flight Lieutenant Anthony Golding Bird (23)
- Sergeant Arthur Thomas Blunden (37)
- Pilot Officer John Herbert Booth (23)
- Flying Officer Geoffrey Alexander Bowman (25)
- Air Corporal John Bussio (36)
- Flight Lieutenant Alan Gordon Byers (28)
- Flight Sergeant Archibald Burton Campbell
- Flight Sergeant Robert Dougall Christie (23)
- Sergeant Kenneth Harold John Clarke (25)
- Warrant Officer Class I Charles Bernard Everett Clow (29)
- Squadron Leader Philip Robert Coldwell (24)
- Sergeant Geoffrey Douglas Cossins
See all 125 who died on 20 May →
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →