Worms
21 February 1945 — Worms
- Date
- 21 February 1945
- Target
- Worms, Germany
Narrative
The ancient cathedral city of Worms, on the Rhine, was attacked on the night of 21/22 February 1945 by a No. 5 Group force. The concentrated incendiary attack burned out most of the medieval centre in a fierce fire and killed well over a thousand people. With the war all but won, raids like this on smaller historic towns of limited military value were increasingly questioned even at the time.
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
140 airmen in this archive died on 21 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 Walter Absalom (23)
- Flight Sergeant Ernest Abner Amzalak
- Pilot Officer Nels Peter Helin Anderson (21)
- Flying Officer Peter Gordon Anderson (21)
- Warrant Officer Class II Andersson (41)
- Flight Lieutenant Abel Baker (23)
- Wing Commander Maurice William L'Isle La Valette Baker (33)
- Wing Commander Reginald William Baker (29)
- Pilot Officer Harold Lester Ball (21)
- Flying Officer Albert John Beck (24)
- Flying Officer Laurence Allen Blaney (26)
- Flying Officer James Arthur Bleich (23)
- Flight Sergeant Bryant Braddock (27)
- Flight Lieutenant Philip Brown (28)
- Flying Officer Peter Harold Burne (21)
- Flying Officer Herbert Thomas Campbell (22)
- Pilot Officer Roy Campbell
- Flying Officer Bernard Maxwell Clegg (20)
- Flight Sergeant Frederick Collie (34)
- Flying Officer Alfred Joseph Combaz (24)
- Flying Officer William Cowan (25)
- Sergeant Thomas Frank Creedy (24)
- Flying Officer George Elliott Creswell
- Flying Officer Henry Raymond Dart
See all 140 who died on 21 February →
Source: Wikipedia — Worms, Germany →