Operation Dresden raid
13 February 1945 — Dresden
- Date
- 13 February 1945
- Target
- Dresden, Germany
- Force dispatched
- 796 aircraft
- Aircraft lost
- 6
Narrative
Highly controversial double raid on Dresden, conducted in two waves on the night of 13/14 February 1945, that caused a firestorm in the city centre.
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
78 airmen in this archive died on 13 February 1945 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 Wilson Alexander (20)
- Flying Officer Kenneth Charles Allan (21)
- Flying Officer William Smith Anderson (22)
- Flight Lieutenant John Armitt (31)
- Flying Officer Garnet Mack Bernard Barlow (24)
- Flying Officer Deckland Archibald Bayley
- Flight Lieutenant Hilliard Ernest Boucher (25)
- Flight Sergeant William George Brady (20)
- Squadron Leader Andrew Austin Cameron (50)
- Flight Sergeant Charles Joseph Anthony Caryi
- Flight Sergeant Maxwell John Coleman (21)
- Flying Officer Earl Wellington Connolly (31)
- Pilot Officer Allan Bruce Crawford (20)
- Flight Sergeant Adolph Joseph Cybulskie (19)
- Flight Lieutenant John Joseph Dunne (22)
- Flying Officer Norman Charles Fernley-stott (20)
- Captain Ferrar (24)
- Pilot Officer Everett Morrison Ford (21)
- Flying Officer Raymond Alfred French (25)
- Flight Sergeant Harold Gallagher
- Flight Lieutenant Raymond Kennedy Gibson (24)
- Flying Officer Fred Merrill Gordon (25)
- Pilot Officer Bernard Granka (21)
- Flight Lieutenant Douglas William Dorey Guest (23)