Leuna

Date

4 April 1945

Target

Leuna

Force dispatched

327 aircraft

Aircraft lost

14

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

97 airmen in this archive died on 4 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.

• Lieutenant Alexander (27)
• Flight Lieutenant Colin Bently Arbon (27)
• Pilot Officer Curwood Neville Armstrong (20)
• Pilot Officer Edward Thomas Ashdown
• Flight Sergeant Sydney Raymond Bacon (21)
• Flying Officer James Arthur Gordon Beck (24)
• Flight Sergeant Ronald James McClean Bell (22)
• Flight Sergeant Wilfred Stuart Bennett (20)
• Warrant Officer John William Bessant (45)
• Flying Officer Arthur Samuel Blake
• Air Sergeant Blatherwick
• Lieutenant Blatt (24)
• Pilot Officer Brian William Brown (23)
• Flight Sergeant Robert Henry Bruce (25)
• Flight Sergeant Ronald Eric Bull (20)
• Lieutenant Carter (22)
• Warrant Officer Ernest John Castor (25)
• Flight Lieutenant Philip Edward Cawthorne (23)
• Corporal Ivor Chapple (26)
• Flight Sergeant James William Churms (19)
• Warrant Officer Alfred Bruce Clarke (24)
• Flight Lieutenant Ronald Edwin Cox (24)
• Pilot Officer Edward Kenneth Coyne
• Second Lieutenant Dalton (20)

See all 97 who died on 4 April →

Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →