Hannover
29 May 1944 — Hannover
- Date
- 29 May 1944
- Command
- Bomber Command
- Target
- Hannover
- Force dispatched
- 31 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
74 airmen in this archive died on 29 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.
- Leading Aircraftman Walter Aldcroft
- Flying Officer Robert Henry Altoft (22)
- Aircraftman 2nd Class George Frederick Barrett (20)
- Flight Lieutenant Christopher Day Beales (25)
- Flying Officer Charles Allen Blackmore (23)
- Sergeant Joe Carter (33)
- Second Lieutenant Chapman (41)
- Flight Lieutenant Richard Leslie William Cheek (27)
- Sergeant Harold George Colgate
- Flying Officer James Moore Cowie (23)
- Sergeant Jeffrey David Crosbie (21)
- Flying Officer Douglas Anderson Cumming (25)
- Warrant Officer Class I Leonard Frank Davey (22)
- Major Johan Phillip De Villiers (32)
- Flight Sergeant Jack Dimond (21)
- Flight Sergeant Robert Bertram Donaghy (35)
- Sergeant Thomas Reuben Farley (20)
- Warrant Officer Class II Floquet (21)
- Pilot Officer William Howard Geddes (21)
- Leading Aircraftman William George Good (24)
- Sergeant Bruce Gordon (21)
- Flight Sergeant Edward Patrick Graham (22)
- Sergeant John Walker Grainger (19)
- Flight Sergeant Richard Ernest Gray (23)
See all 74 who died on 29 May →
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →