Ludwigshafen

Date

26 May 1944

Target

Ludwigshafen

Force dispatched

42 aircraft

Aircraft lost

2

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

82 airmen in this archive died on 26 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.

• Corporal Edwin George Ballard (40)
• Sergeant Michael Bertram Palliser Barrow (20)
• Sergeant Robert Bourke (26)
• Flight Lieutenant Cyril Samuel Bradford (28)
• Sergeant Edward Garrod Joshua Bridgeman (23)
• Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Charles Brightwell
• Flight Sergeant Edwin George William Broad
• Sergeant Bernard Broe (22)
• Sergeant Arthur Henry Brown
• Warrant Officer Thomas Wadeson Buckley (24)
• Leading Aircraftman Alfred Wallace John Byerley (30)
• Leading Aircraftman Cecil William Cartwright (25)
• Pilot Officer John Casson (21)
• Sergeant Albert Dennis Clark (28)
• Sergeant Walter Coldwell
• Warrant Officer George Cowdrey (24)
• Sergeant Alan Reginald Harold Daly (19)
• Flying Officer Paul Alexander Davidson (25)
• Flying Officer Burghardt Hans Dobesch (22)
• Flight Sergeant Frederick Arthur Donaldson (23)
• Corporal Leonard Dugdale (24)
• Flying Officer Raymond Fraser Edwards (26)
• Flight Sergeant Bernard David Fine (20)
• Pilot Officer Jack Byrne Fleming (22)

See all 82 who died on 26 May →

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