Brunswick

Date

1 October 1944

Target

Brunswick, Germany

Force dispatched

48 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

39 airmen in this archive died on 1 October 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 Hudson Garth Ainslie (21)
• Sergeant Richard David Astley
• Flight Lieutenant Russell Reginald Bouskill (28)
• Warrant Officer Patrick Hope Brewin (21)
• Sergeant Taras Stefan Buchkowski (19)
• Flight Lieutenant John Christopher Chesters (32)
• Pilot Officer John Colin Cottier (20)
• Warrant Officer Percival Richard Criddle (21)
• Sergeant Gordon Farrell Cumming (23)
• Flying Officer Ernest Raymond Davey (22)
• Lieutenant Michael Duchen (23)
• Flight Lieutenant Roland Gwynne Evans-evans (30)
• Sergeant John William Fraser
• Flight Lieutenant Herbert Marshall Godsall (31)
• Sergeant William Gordon (27)
• Leading Aircraftman Martin Dustin Goss
• Warrant Officer Tom Philip George Griffin (24)
• Flying Officer Maurice Jack Hamblin (28)
• Flight Sergeant Robert William Garth Henry
• Pilot Officer Clyde John Hogan (24)
• Flying Officer Donald James Jennings (26)
• Warrant Officer Reginald Tyrwhit Knight (27)
• Flight Lieutenant George Albert Long (25)
• Leading Aircraftman Alexander McCann (33)

See all 39 who died on 1 October →

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