Mainz
27 February 1945 — Mainz
- Date
- 27 February 1945
- Target
- Mainz, Germany
Narrative
Mainz, the Rhineland cathedral city, was struck by a large Bomber Command force on 27 February 1945. The attack destroyed much of the old town along the Rhine, among the heaviest of the many raids the city suffered in the war’s final months as Bomber Command supported the Allied drive to and across the river.
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
26 airmen in this archive died on 27 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 Maurice Edward Balcom (27)
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Marcel Belanger (22)
- Flying Officer Rodolphe Joseph Lorenzo Boucher (31)
- Flight Sergeant Morley Junior Brewer (19)
- Flying Officer Henry James Brock (23)
- Flying Officer Sidney Thomas Carson (20)
- Flight Lieutenant Clifford Donald Cross (24)
- Sergeant Griffith Wynne Dixon (25)
- Corporal Nelson Fairgray
- Flight Lieutenant John Fredrick Filteau
- Flight Sergeant Frederick George Fisher (30)
- Flying Officer William Robert Gibbs (21)
- Flight Sergeant Stuart Samuel Hagerty (21)
- Squadron Leader Jack Holloway (28)
- Pilot Officer Angus Mackie (23)
- Flying Officer James Roy Alexander Maconachie
- Flying Officer Neville Milne McNulty (29)
- Aircraftman 1st Class Douglas Moore
- Pilot Officer Harold Osbourn (34)
- Flying Officer Edward Anderson Paterson (22)
- Wing Commander John Richard Ratten (35)
- Pilot Officer William Henry Russell (25)
- Flying Officer Richard McDiarmid Scott (26)
- Flying Officer James Ben Stoehr (28)