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Hanover-Ahlem, Lower Saxony, Germany


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Airmen who lost their live during the night of the
27th to the 28th of September 1943

678 British bombers dropped 2,196 tons of bombs over Hanover and Brunswick. 38 Bomber Command aircraft - 17 Halifaxes, 10 Lancasters, 10 Stirlings, 1 Wellington - lost, 5.6 per cent of the force, and 1 B-17 also lost. The use by the Pathfinders of faulty forecast winds again saved the centre of Hannover. The bombing was very concentrated but fell on an area 5 miles north of the city centre. No details are available from Germany but RAF photographic evidence showed that most of the bombs fell in open country or villages north of the city.

Airmen of the 78 Sqdn. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Halifax JD476 took off from RAF Breighton at 1916 hours on the night of 27/28th September 1943, detailed to attack Hanover, Germany. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take off and it failed to return to base.
Six of the crew were killed and Sgt Preston was a POW.
Sgt Preston later stated "that the aircraft caught fire and bale out was ordered. He opened the escape hatch and immediately baled out after which he had no further news re the other members of the crew."
A Missing Research and Enquiry team report stated "the aircraft crashed at Wiechendorf, which is about 12 miles north west of Hanover."


Frederick Walter Hucker
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Sergeant (Air Bomber)
1585982
abt. 1922
27 September 1943
21
78 Sqdn. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
1. E. 7
Son of Walter Edwin and
Jessie Charlotte Hucker,
of Clifton, Bristol.
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Harold Ferme
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Pilot Officer (Pilot)
416844
abt. 1919
27 September 1943
24
Royal Australian Air Force
1. E. 8
Son of Alice Eva Maude Ferme,
of Port Pirie, South Australia.
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Thomas Andrew Cuthbertson Dorn
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Sergeant (Wireless Op./Air Gunner)
1036353

27 September 1943

78 Sqdn. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
1. E. 10
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Robert James Drinkwater
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Sergeant (Flight Engineer)
1497401
abt. 1922
27 September 1943
21
78 Sqdn. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
1. E. 11
Son of James and Alice Drinkwater,
of Claines, Worcestershire.
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Stuart Vivian Cole
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Flying Officer
409462
abt. 1913
27 September 1943
30
Royal Australian Air Force
1. E. 12
Son of Henry Vivian Cole
and Sylvia Rosalin Cole,
husband of Eileen Magdalene Cole,
of Strathfield, New South Wales. Australia.
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Eric James Bream
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Sergeant (Air Gunner)
1319137

27 September 1943

78 Sqdn. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
1. E. 13
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William Thornhill
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Sergeant (Air Gunner)
1433249

27 September 1943

460 (R.A.A.F.) Sqdn. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
1. E. 14
It is not clear ff William Thornhill was part of this crew.
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