Dortmund

Date

22 May 1944

Target

Dortmund, Germany

Force dispatched

133 aircraft

Aircraft lost

33

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

475 airmen in this archive died on 22 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.

• Flight Sergeant George Frederick Dugald Abayasekera (23)
• Warrant Officer Edmund James Kiely Ahern (26)
• Pilot Officer Arthur John Alcott (28)
• Flying Officer William Victor Amphlett
• Flight Lieutenant Robert Charles Andersen (28)
• Flight Sergeant Allan Andrew Anderson
• Flying Officer Kenneth Edgar Archay (23)
• Sergeant Arthur Meakin Armin (24)
• Pilot Officer Cecil Ernest Armstrong (27)
• Flight Sergeant Francis Allen Aspinall (20)
• Sergeant Denis Asquith
• Sergeant Ronald Leonard (ron) Aston (19)
• Flying Officer Roy Eric Ayre (23)
• Flying Officer Douglas Alfred Bacon
• Flight Sergeant Harold Roy Bailey
• Flight Sergeant Peter Alan Gainsford Bailey
• Pilot Officer Ronald Walter Bailey (22)
• Pilot Officer William Alexander Bailey (21)
• Sergeant Lionel Edward John Baily (21)
• Flying Officer Frederick John Baker (38)
• Pilot Officer Leslie Jack Baker (22)
• Warrant Officer Ronald Charles William Gibson Baker
• Sergeant Robert Walter Ball (20)
• Pilot Officer Sigmund Bernard Bandur (28)

See all 475 who died on 22 May →

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