Wangerooge
25 April 1945 — Wangerooge
- Date
- 25 April 1945
- Target
- Wangerooge, Germany
Narrative
Also on 25 April 1945 — the same day as the Berchtesgaden raid — Bomber Command attacked the coastal gun batteries on the Frisian island of Wangerooge, which guarded the approaches to Bremen and Wilhelmshaven. It was the final bombing operation flown by the Canadian squadrons of No. 6 Group; several aircraft were lost, some to mid-air collision, on what was for many crews their last sortie of the war.
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
70 airmen in this archive died on 25 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.
- Flying Officer Lloyd Hilbourne Amos
- Flying Officer Douglas George Baker (23)
- Warrant Officer George Donald Barry (27)
- Flying Officer Allan Bernard Boyd
- Pilot Officer James Edwin Brambleby (24)
- Lieutenant T. J. McD. Breakey (22)
- Flying Officer Edward Dale Brydon
- Lieutenant Francis Bullard (30)
- Flight Lieutenant John Alan Burkitt (26)
- Flight Sergeant Ralph Franklin Carrodus (23)
- Pilot Officer Paxton Chapple (22)
- Flying Officer John Duncan Cruickshank (28)
- Pilot Officer Dennis Rupert Humphrey Curzon (20)
- Flying Officer Wilfred Tarquinas De Marco
- Flight Lieutenant Arthur Joseph Dilworth (22)
- Flying Officer William John Edwards (25)
- Flight Lieutenant Arthur Blevyn Ely
- Flight Lieutenant Barry Desmond Emmet (24)
- Flying Officer Cedric John Evans (22)
- Flight Lieutenant George Walter John Fenwick (31)
- Pilot Officer Oswald Ernest Goddard (22)
- Pilot Officer Ronald Bede Goodwin (21)
- Captain Gould (35)
- Flight Lieutenant Kilburn Howard Grist
See all 70 who died on 25 April →
Source: Bomber Command Museum of Canada — Wangerooge, 6 Group's Last Bombing Operation →