Hannover

Date

29 November 1944

Target

Hannover

Force dispatched

19 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

60 airmen in this archive died on 29 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 Sergeant Herbert Barnard Armstrong (22)
• Flying Officer David Bell (28)
• Flying Officer Kenneth Brian Bennett (22)
• Flight Sergeant Robert James Boag (24)
• Flying Officer Donald Lloyd Breadner (20)
• Air Mechanic Burmester (22)
• Flying Officer Neville Edward Butler (27)
• Flight Sergeant William Chornous (20)
• Pilot Officer George Walter Clarke (21)
• Flying Officer Henry Connelly
• Flight Sergeant Jackson C. Cooke
• Flight Sergeant Rene Victor Daoust (26)
• Flight Sergeant Lorne Graham Davies
• Sergeant David Evans
• Flying Officer Joseph Rodolphe Gaston Farlette (26)
• Sergeant John Weston Finch (24)
• Sergeant Lambert Joseph Fitzpatrick
• Flight Sergeant James Alfred Goff
• Flying Officer Maurice Claude Norfolk Gray (27)
• Flying Officer Leo George Hardiman (22)
• Flying Officer Roy Davidson Heath (27)
• Warrant Officer Class II Francis Ignatius Roy Bruce Hill
• Flight Lieutenant Jack Hunt (23)
• Flight Sergeant Jack Hurst Kitchin (19)

See all 60 who died on 29 November →

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