Bochum

Date

5 November 1943

Target

Bochum, Germany

Force dispatched

26 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

121 airmen in this archive died on 5 November 1943 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.

• Sergeant William Aitkenhead
• Sergeant Alexander Henry Anderson (20)
• Flight Sergeant George Frederick Austin (31)
• Captain Henry Barnard (43)
• Pilot Officer Alfred Douglas Blackman (25)
• Flight Sergeant John Blackshaw (29)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Harry Christopher Broad
• Flight Sergeant Douglas Frederick Brown
• Sergeant Reginald Thomas Brown (33)
• Flight Sergeant Ian McGregor Burch (22)
• Sergeant Patrick Maurice Butler (23)
• Pilot Officer Keith Baines Callaghan (20)
• Flight Sergeant Ian Hope Callister (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Edward Godfrey Carter (19)
• Sergeant Charles William Charrott
• Leading Aircraftman Leslie Eric Childe (24)
• Sergeant Douglas Gerald Codrington (22)
• Flight Sergeant Kenneth Richard Copas (21)
• Sergeant Josiah Wilmore Cope (20)
• Sergeant Martin Alexander Crimmins (19)
• Flight Sergeant Ivan Frederick Cummins (22)
• Flying Officer Russell Alfred Davis (23)
• Sergeant Joseph Robert George Day (19)
• Corporal Norman Allen Durk (49)

See all 121 who died on 5 November →

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