Homberg

Date

1 November 1944

Target

Homberg

Force dispatched

244 aircraft

Aircraft lost

1

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

113 airmen in this archive died on 1 November 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.

• Flying Officer Bruce Benjamin Anderson (27)
• Flying Officer William Frank Anderson (21)
• Pilot Officer Joseph Ferdinand Jacques Bachant
• Flying Officer John Clement Badgley (21)
• Pilot Officer Andrew George Balfour
• Corporal Frederick William Beames (41)
• Lieutenant James Errol Begbie (26)
• Pilot Officer Alexander Gordon Best
• Pilot Officer Jack Binstead (25)
• Warrant Officer Class I Ernest Joseph Leonard Bolingbroke
• Flight Sergeant Harold Wallace Botterill (21)
• Leading Aircraftman David Graham Smith Boulton (22)
• Pilot Officer De Willett Francis Brown
• Warrant Officer Joseph Merrick Towers Brown (21)
• Sergeant Kenneth James Burns (29)
• Pilot Officer Clifden Homer Foch Campton
• Flight Sergeant Irving Fairfax Carlsen (32)
• Flight Lieutenant Albert George Carlton (25)
• Warrant Officer James Nelson Casey (21)
• Flying Officer Donald Daubney Connor
• Flight Sergeant Clifford Eugene Leroy Cook (19)
• Pilot Officer Ernest Edward Courtis (23)
• Flying Officer Walter Sidney Cowan (26)
• Flight Sergeant David William Davidson (32)

See all 113 who died on 1 November →

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