Gravenhorst

Date

6 November 1944

Target

Gravenhorst

Force dispatched

31 aircraft

Aircraft lost

16

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

75 airmen in this archive died on 6 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 Austin (24)
• Flying Officer Arthur John Bate (21)
• Leading Aircraftman Arthur Kennedy Bean (24)
• 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)
• Flight Lieutenant Albert Edward Challenger (30)
• Flying Officer Kenneth Louis Chapman (24)
• Flight Lieutenant Kenneth David Clarson (24)
• Flight Sergeant Michael Arthur Cook (21)
• Sergeant Allan Edward Cooper (27)
• Flying Officer Joseph Arthur Gordon Cooper (28)
• Flying Officer Owen Jones Cox
• Flying Officer Wendell Stuart Curtis (21)
• Sergeant Kenneth Vickery Dean
• Flying Officer Amos Edwin Botsford Denovan (21)
• Flight Sergeant Ralph Andrew Dowling (19)
• Flying Officer Lloyd Draysey (30)
• Pilot Officer George Amos Dunkelman (21)
• Lieutenant Corney Anthony J. Duran
• Flying Officer Harold Davison Durrant (28)
• Flight Sergeant Ian David Dutfield (19)

See all 75 who died on 6 November →

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