Homberg

Date

8 November 1944

Target

Homberg

Force dispatched

138 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

69 airmen in this archive died on 8 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.

• Pilot Officer William Wallace Eugene Anderson (21)
• Pilot Officer Peter Barnicke (19)
• Leading Aircraftman James Michael Bergin (23)
• Flight Sergeant Robert Augusta Best
• Lieutenant Christian Gresse Boshoff (19)
• Corporal John Lawrence Bowden (38)
• Pilot Officer Clarence William Arthur Britton (22)
• Flying Officer Edward John Brown
• Flying Officer Allan Bruce (22)
• Pilot Officer Vincent Daniel Campbell
• Flight Sergeant Chouchoux
• Warrant Officer David Forbes Clare (23)
• Flying Officer William Wilfred Cook (30)
• Flight Sergeant Arthur Wallace Cooke (33)
• Flying Officer Bruce Sherwood Corbett
• Flight Lieutenant Thomas Edward Nelson Crouch (27)
• Flying Officer James Clyde Cummings (24)
• Flight Sergeant John Michael Hugh Delaney
• Pilot Officer Charles Knowlton Douglass (21)
• Sergeant William Drozdiak (18)
• Pilot Officer Michael Walter Warren Duley (20)
• Pilot Officer William Alexander Edmonds (26)
• Leading Aircraftman Thomas Joseph Farrell (23)
• Sergeant Harold Lawson Fernstrom (19)

See all 69 who died on 8 November →

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