Heligoland
18 April 1945 — Heligoland
- Date
- 18 April 1945
- Target
- Heligoland
- Force dispatched
- 969 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
68 airmen in this archive died on 18 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 Peter Douglas Allan (22)
- Flight Lieutenant Stanley Herbert Balkwill (23)
- Corporal Arthur James Balls (27)
- Flying Officer Luke Barnes (22)
- Warrant Officer William Andrew Irving Bone (24)
- Leading Aircraftman William Stalker Burns (34)
- Squadron Leader John Fairfax Carlyle (26)
- Flying Officer Charles Phillip Dent Childs (32)
- Sergeant Robert Clarke (42)
- Captain Coetzee
- Flight Lieutenant Henry Cowan (24)
- Flight Lieutenant Albert James Cull (21)
- Warrant Officer Ronald Gordon Dawson (24)
- Warrant Officer Class I Robert Gordon Douglas (28)
- Warrant Officer Frank Barker Duffield (23)
- Pilot Officer William John Dunnigan (21)
- Lieutenant Du Preez (20)
- Warrant Officer Class I Vincent Albert Fox (26)
- Warrant Officer Harold Kendall Franklin (23)
- Sergeant Linton Gibson (34)
- Lieutenant Good
- Lieutenant Harry Noel Greenberg (28)
- Corporal Trevor Griffiths (19)
- Flight Lieutenant John Wilbert Edmund Harten (27)
See all 68 who died on 18 April →
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →