Münster

Date

18 November 1944

Target

Münster

Force dispatched

479 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

49 airmen in this archive died on 18 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.

• Flight Lieutenant Alexander Stuart Anderson (33)
• Flying Officer Theodore Reginald Bailey (22)
• Flying Officer James Macfadden Beeston (21)
• Flying Officer William Henry Laurie Bellingham (21)
• Air Mechanic Matheus G. Beukes
• Flying Officer Frederick Heath Broad (21)
• Flight Sergeant Garry Brendan Byrne (20)
• Flying Officer Arnold George Carter (22)
• Warrant Officer Class I John Gardner Chamberlin (21)
• Flight Sergeant Douglas Neal Charlesworth (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Philip Marcel Charron
• Flight Sergeant Cyril Collas (23)
• Flying Officer John Morgan Cordick (25)
• Air Commodore Roger Amedee Delhaye (54)
• Flying Officer John Robert Dunne (21)
• Flying Officer Sidney Dalton Easterbrook (25)
• Warrant Officer Class I John Francis Emery (24)
• Flight Sergeant Allan Henderson Fairmaid (21)
• Sergeant Clifford Nicholas Flette
• Flying Officer Alan Henry Francis (33)
• Corporal John Stewart Gerrard (27)
• Pilot Officer James Gilbody (23)
• Sergeant Robert Sidney Gray (25)
• Lieutenant John Henshilwood

See all 49 who died on 18 November →

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