Dortmund

Date

15 November 1944

Target

Dortmund, Germany

Force dispatched

179 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

55 airmen in this archive died on 15 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 Lloyd John Adams (22)
• Flying Officer John Graham Anderson (32)
• Sergeant Neville Joseph Anderson (22)
• Flight Sergeant Ernest Robert Armstrong (20)
• Sergeant Jack Edward Armstrong (23)
• Flight Sergeant Colin James Ashworth (22)
• Flight Sergeant Reginald Bellhouse (22)
• Flying Officer Gilbert Louis Oscar Berg (27)
• Flying Officer Norman Holmes Boss (25)
• Air Sergeant Bowman (28)
• Pilot Officer Felix Milton Burrows (20)
• Flight Sergeant Ralph William Carroll
• Flying Officer Joseph Norman Clark (24)
• Flying Officer Edward Thomas Coles (21)
• Flying Officer James Ross Copland (24)
• Pilot Officer Kerry Milton Crayston (20)
• Leading Aircraftman Leonard John Cunningham (19)
• Flying Officer Peter Thomas Curtis (21)
• Flight Lieutenant John William Davidson (21)
• Pilot Officer Gordon Forbes Dawson (22)
• Sergeant Joseph Jacques Louis Philippe Dion (24)
• Flying Officer Joseph Reginald Dunford (22)
• Flying Officer Kenneth Douglas Farrow
• Sergeant John Gamborski (24)

See all 55 who died on 15 November →

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