Bottrop

Date

30 November 1944

Target

Bottrop

Force dispatched

576 aircraft

Aircraft lost

2

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

34 airmen in this archive died on 30 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 David Bell (28)
• Flying Officer Kenneth Brian Bennett (22)
• Flight Sergeant Robert James Boag (24)
• Flying Officer Donald Lloyd Breadner (20)
• Pilot Officer George Walter Clarke (21)
• Lieutenant Coetzer (22)
• Sergeant David Evans
• Flying Officer Joseph Rodolphe Gaston Farlette (26)
• Sergeant John Weston Finch (24)
• Flying Officer Leo George Hardiman (22)
• Flying Officer Brian Norman Jacobsen
• Flight Sergeant Jack Hurst Kitchin (19)
• Pilot Officer Francis Walter Manchip (24)
• Pilot Officer Vincent William Mathias (28)
• Sergeant Samuel Lorne Wilfred McCron (34)
• Flight Sergeant George McGregor
• Flying Officer James Alexander McIntosh (26)
• Flight Sergeant Robert Cashampton Morgan (26)
• Sergeant Gladstone Clifford Morris (19)
• Flight Sergeant Ronald Wynne Newman (29)
• Pilot Officer Robert Floyd Nimmo (19)
• Pilot Officer Scott McCrury Ogilvie (18)
• Flight Lieutenant Jack Forster Overton (26)
• Pilot Officer Gerrard Leo Pare

See all 34 who died on 30 November →

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