Erfurt

Date

26 November 1944

Target

Erfurt

Force dispatched

31 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

44 airmen in this archive died on 26 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 Donald Charles Beattie (19)
• Squadron Leader The Rev. James Gordon Brown
• Flying Officer Lionel James Colgan (26)
• Flight Sergeant Frances William George Cosgrave (32)
• Sergeant William Roy Courage (21)
• Pilot Officer John Dickie (26)
• Corporal Alan Sydney Durose
• Flying Officer Walter Henry Egan
• Flight Sergeant William Stanley Evans (21)
• Flight Lieutenant William Fedoruk (28)
• Flying Officer Jack Glen Millan Fisher (21)
• Flying Officer William Alexander Greenshields (27)
• Aircraftman 1st Class James Reginald Groves (28)
• Sergeant Stanley Jack Hattersley (19)
• Sergeant Milton Lynn Hill
• Flight Sergeant Harry Donald Hooper
• Flying Officer Garth Borland Johnson (22)
• Flight Lieutenant John Alfred Johnson (26)
• Leading Aircraftman Charles Kelly
• Flying Officer Charles Marland Kendall (34)
• Warrant Officer Class I Clare Kinton (23)
• Pilot Officer Frederick Sydney Leech
• Flight Lieutenant Alfred Ernest Marshall (29)
• Flight Lieutenant Thomas McAleese (27)

See all 44 who died on 26 November →

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