Molbis

Date

7 April 1945

Target

Molbis

Force dispatched

200 aircraft

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

41 airmen in this archive died on 7 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 Robert Ross Anderson Adrain (35)
• Warrant Officer Keith Walter Ainsworth (22)
• Flight Sergeant Lindsay Arthur Bayley (29)
• Warrant Officer Class I John Bomby
• Flight Sergeant Anthony George Stewart Brunskill (20)
• Flight Lieutenant Alex Allan Buck (31)
• Flying Officer Peter Douglas Bushell (25)
• Flight Lieutenant Francis John Butcher (39)
• Flight Lieutenant Douglas Hardy Byerley (28)
• Flying Officer Royden Leslie Cotnam
• Flying Officer William Gordon Craig (23)
• Flight Lieutenant John Currie (21)
• Flying Officer Ralph Emerson Featherstone (22)
• Warrant Officer Class II Hugh Alexander Fisher (24)
• Flying Officer Russell Richard Napier Forrest (21)
• Flying Officer Russell James Glazier (21)
• Flight Sergeant Everard Charles Graebner (22)
• Air Commodore Stephen Hardy (40)
• Warrant Officer Charles Henry Harrison (34)
• Warrant Officer Raymond John Hedge
• Flying Officer Joseph Arthur Rosaire Gaetan Heroux
• Flight Sergeant Joseph Claude Raul Andre Laferriere (21)
• Flight Sergeant John Harrie McGuigan (20)
• Flight Lieutenant Thomas Archibald Meiklejohn (25)

See all 41 who died on 7 April →

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