Hannover

Date

4 November 1944

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

108 airmen in this archive died on 4 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 James Llewellyn Allan (23)
• Flight Sergeant Patrick Joseph Ambrose (20)
• Flight Sergeant Kenneth Peder Christian Andersen (28)
• Flying Officer George Hadley Baily (21)
• Flight Sergeant Virgil Gilbert Bambrick (30)
• Flight Sergeant John Banfield (26)
• Leading Aircraftman Rosslyn Glover Banford (25)
• Flight Sergeant Reginald Harold Battye (19)
• Corporal Samuel Mitchell Bayley (48)
• Sergeant Maurice George Beckley (21)
• Pilot Officer William Border (22)
• Flying Officer Keith Bishop Brooks (22)
• Flying Officer Geoffrey William Brown (21)
• Pilot Officer Albert Edward Burgess
• Flight Sergeant Donald Eugene Burrows (19)
• Flying Officer Anthony Carlyle Cameron (21)
• Flying Officer Nigel Bruce Carrall (22)
• Leading Aircraftman Frederick Samuel Carter
• Flight Lieutenant Hugh Orme Cato (21)
• Corporal Lewis Charles Liversedge Cawthorn (45)
• Pilot Officer Robert James Chalmers (20)
• Flying Officer Antony Dutton Chapman (28)
• Aircraftman 1st Class George Gavin Cedric Clarke (18)
• Flying Officer John Earl Clements

See all 108 who died on 4 November →

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