Hannover

Date

23 November 1944

Target

Hannover

Force dispatched

43 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

39 airmen in this archive died on 23 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.

• Sergeant John Harvey Millar Adam (19)
• Wing Commander Arthur Buckle (44)
• Wing Commander Charles Frederick Burt (41)
• Flight Sergeant Calvert Philip Byrne (24)
• Flying Officer Francis Royden Clarke (20)
• Flight Sergeant William Henry Daniel (24)
• Flight Sergeant Douglas Alexander Gunn
• Flying Officer Allan Charles Hirst (22)
• Flying Officer James Douglas Jones (22)
• Flying Officer Ronald Marwood Jones (25)
• Flying Officer Richard Gerard Mansfield (27)
• Flying Officer John McHardy (21)
• Flight Sergeant Norman Stanley McNeilly (25)
• Warrant Officer John Leonard Mulhall (21)
• Flight Sergeant John Joseph Murphy (19)
• Flying Officer Harold Perry Nelson (33)
• Lieutenant Oddie (32)
• Flight Sergeant Bruce Anthony Palme (20)
• Lieutenant Pitt (33)
• Flight Sergeant Forbes Porter (23)
• Flying Officer Charles James Preece
• Pilot Officer John David Richards (33)
• Flight Sergeant Basil Thomas Rogers (22)
• Flying Officer Herbert Moore Sheed (28)

See all 39 who died on 23 November →

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