Stuttgart

Date

5 November 1944

Target

Stuttgart, Germany

Force dispatched

65 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

84 airmen in this archive died on 5 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)
• Flying Officer James Austin (24)
• Flight Sergeant John Banfield (26)
• Leading Aircraftman Rosslyn Glover Banford (25)
• Flying Officer Arthur John Bate (21)
• Flying Officer Peter John Bowell (23)
• Warrant Officer Keith Mortimer Bright (21)
• Flight Sergeant Bruce Harold Brown (20)
• Warrant Officer Norman John Burns (25)
• Flight Sergeant Walter Harvey James Butcher (19)
• Flying Officer Anthony Carlyle Cameron (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Hugh Orme Cato (21)
• Corporal Lewis Charles Liversedge Cawthorn (45)
• Flight Lieutenant Albert Edward Challenger (30)
• Pilot Officer Robert James Chalmers (20)
• Flying Officer Antony Dutton Chapman (28)
• Flying Officer Kenneth Louis Chapman (24)
• Aircraftman 1st Class George Gavin Cedric Clarke (18)
• Flight Sergeant Michael Arthur Cook (21)
• Flying Officer Joseph Arthur Gordon Cooper (28)
• Flight Sergeant Anthony Young Cousins (20)
• Flying Officer Owen Jones Cox
• Flying Officer Amos Edwin Botsford Denovan (21)
• Flight Sergeant Ralph Andrew Dowling (19)

See all 84 who died on 5 November →

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