Leipzig

Date

10 April 1945

Target

Leipzig, Germany

Force dispatched

230 aircraft

Aircraft lost

1

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

56 airmen in this archive died on 10 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 Lieutenant Peter Murray Anderson (24)
• Flying Officer Alfred Desmond John Ball (20)
• Flight Sergeant Neville James Barron (19)
• Pilot Officer Frederick William Birks (23)
• Wing Commander Terence Patrick Armstrong Bradley (28)
• Sergeant Frederick Brookes
• Warrant Officer Thomas Louis Bubke (22)
• Pilot Officer Melvin John (mel) Burns (20)
• Flying Officer Harold Ernest Leslie Chapman (24)
• Flight Sergeant William Clive Crosby (22)
• Flying Officer Gwilym Leonard Davies (34)
• Air Corporal David De Villiers (30)
• Pilot Officer Ian Henry Dustin (26)
• Flight Sergeant Neil Vernon Evans (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Ronald Sylvester Evans (20)
• Flying Officer Douglas Godfrey Vincent Forster (25)
• Flying Officer Murray Frank (25)
• Flying Officer George William Gell (34)
• Flying Officer Lawrence Albert Graham
• Warrant Officer Class II William Munroe Leckie Green
• Flying Officer Robert James Grisdale (22)
• Pilot Officer John George Harvey (24)
• Pilot Officer Joseph Michael Hirak (23)
• Pilot Officer Dennis Hugo

See all 56 who died on 10 April →

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