Dortmund

Date

23 May 1944

Target

Dortmund, Germany

Force dispatched

30 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

295 airmen in this archive died on 23 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 Peter Francis Allwright (20)
• Sergeant Pryce David Andrew
• 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)
• Flight Sergeant Harold Roy Bailey
• Flight Sergeant Peter Alan Gainsford Bailey
• Pilot Officer William Alexander Bailey (21)
• Pilot Officer Leslie Jack Baker (22)
• Warrant Officer Ronald Charles William Gibson Baker
• Flight Sergeant John Wilfred Barber (21)
• Sergeant John Oliver Beagley (19)
• Flight Lieutenant Edgar William Beattie
• Flying Officer Alvin Marshall Beatty
• Pilot Officer Charles Marie Beauregard
• Warrant Officer Class II Arthur Carleton Beckett
• Flying Officer Donald Cosmo Beddoe (26)
• Flight Sergeant David Frank Boyce Bell
• Pilot Officer Alfred Henry George Biggs (34)
• Sergeant James Binnie (21)
• Warrant Officer Alfred Boulton
• Pilot Officer Eric Patrick Boutilier (22)

See all 295 who died on 23 May →

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