Gotha

Date

9 November 1944

Target

Gotha

Force dispatched

22 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

36 airmen in this archive died on 9 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 Peter Barnicke (19)
• Leading Aircraftman James Michael Bergin (23)
• Flight Sergeant Robert Augusta Best
• Sergeant Thomas Boyle (29)
• Flying Officer Edward John Brown
• Flying Officer Allan Bruce (22)
• Pilot Officer Vincent Daniel Campbell
• Flight Sergeant Chouchoux
• Flying Officer James Clyde Cummings (24)
• Sergeant Joseph Anthony Austin Giroux (20)
• Sergeant Donald Goodwin (19)
• Flying Officer Lindsay Leonard Guthrie (23)
• Leading Aircraftman John Hugh Hanning (27)
• Flight Lieutenant Arthur George Hodges (28)
• Flight Lieutenant Ernesto Howell
• Warrant Officer Arthur Joseph Hynes (21)
• Flight Sergeant John Desmond Jenner (20)
• Pilot Officer Norman Gordon Marler (22)
• Flying Officer William Kenneth Marshall
• Warrant Officer Class I John McCallum (32)
• Flying Officer Alexander Stuart Miller (24)
• Pilot Officer Lloyd William Nelson
• Flying Officer William Ward Osborne (22)
• Pilot Officer Louis Alexander Ouellette (22)

See all 36 who died on 9 November →

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