Homberg

Date

20 November 1944

Target

Homberg

Force dispatched

193 aircraft

Aircraft lost

5

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

92 airmen in this archive died on 20 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 Thomas Gordon Huie Adams (28)
• Pilot Officer Robert Allan (24)
• Flight Lieutenant William Joseph Allison (28)
• Pilot Officer Russell Munn Almas
• Pilot Officer James Neil Atkinson (19)
• Flying Officer Kenneth Hubert Barker
• Pilot Officer Louis Basarab
• Flight Sergeant Peter Daubeny Bateman (21)
• Flying Officer William Walter D'Arcy Brain (26)
• Flying Officer James Alfred Bryant
• Flight Lieutenant Malcolm Stjernqvist Buchanan (31)
• Flight Sergeant William Bull (21)
• Sergeant Joseph Paul Ernest Burke (20)
• Flight Sergeant George Jeffrey Burns
• Warrant Officer Sydney Harold Burrow
• Flight Sergeant Wallace Patrick Burton (20)
• Corporal Reginald Lewis Butler (26)
• Sergeant Alexander Angus Cameron (19)
• Flight Sergeant Roger Staniforth Chandler (25)
• Flight Lieutenant Samuel Cohen
• Flying Officer Allan Waddingham Collins (25)
• Flight Sergeant Herbert Keith Coombe (20)
• Flying Officer Charles Currie (22)
• Pilot Officer Allan Roy Frank Dunkerley (33)

See all 92 who died on 20 November →

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