Castrop-rauxel
11 November 1944 — Castrop-rauxel
- Date
- 11 November 1944
- Target
- Castrop-rauxel
- Force dispatched
- 124 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
51 airmen in this archive died on 11 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 Wilton Garnet Armour (22)
- Flying Officer John Albert Baker (27)
- Pilot Officer Brian Kenneth Barstow (22)
- Sergeant Cyril Bayford (28)
- Warrant Officer Richard William Beck (22)
- Sergeant Harry Boardman
- Flying Officer George Daniel Boyd (22)
- Sergeant Earl Douglas Bround (25)
- Lieutenant John R Brydone (22)
- Warrant Officer Gordon Thomas Bulman (28)
- Flight Sergeant Edward George Charman (20)
- Leading Aircraftman Henry Cockbain (24)
- Warrant Officer Class I William John Coward (21)
- Flying Officer Francis Joseph Crowley (23)
- Flying Officer Augustine Frederick Cullington (24)
- Flying Officer Derek Atkinson Ellis (21)
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Stuart Eustace (20)
- Flying Officer Thomas Frank Eyre (22)
- Flying Officer Murray James Feddersen (20)
- Corporal John Ferrie Fenwick
- Flight Sergeant George French (28)
- Flight Sergeant Geoffrey Goodfellow (20)
- Flying Officer Chesley Reginald Grassie
- Warrant Officer Ian Hutchinson Gray (21)
See all 51 who died on 11 November →
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →