Wiesbaden

Date

18 November 1944

Target

Wiesbaden, Germany

Force dispatched

75 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

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) →