Bremen
22 April 1945 — Bremen
- Date
- 22 April 1945
- Target
- Bremen, Germany
Narrative
Bomber Command’s last attack on Bremen came on 22 April 1945, when a force using GH blind-bombing radar dropped around 1,100 tons of bombs on the city in support of the British ground advance about to take it. It closed the account on a port that, between 1940 and 1945, had absorbed over 12,000 tons of bombs from the Command.
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
43 airmen in this archive died on 22 April 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.
- Flight Sergeant Joseph Roger Baril (19)
- Flight Lieutenant Thomas Bell (22)
- Flight Sergeant Cameron Harrison Booty (19)
- Flight Lieutenant Noel Vincent Borland (34)
- Warrant Officer Reginald Alfred Brown (25)
- Aircraftman 2nd Class John Howard Carmichael (21)
- Pilot Officer Raymond Thomas Casey (22)
- Flight Sergeant Kenneth F. Chapman (19)
- Sergeant Hugh Ernest Clark (24)
- Sergeant George Geoffrey Cockroft
- Flight Sergeant Patrick Joseph Crowley (30)
- Flying Officer Harold John Gibbs (21)
- Flying Officer Douglas Fraser Grose
- Flying Officer Wilbert Arnold Gunning (33)
- Flying Officer Wilfred Cleland Hall (24)
- Flying Officer Timothy Hartnett
- Flying Officer Austin Arthur Hawthorne
- Flying Officer Thomas John Higgins (24)
- Squadron Leader James Russell Johnson (29)
- Flight Lieutenant Robert Henderson Lamason (30)
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Lealand
- Flight Sergeant Roderick John Leonard (20)
- Flying Officer Eric Rex Loton (22)
- Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Hugh McFadden (22)