Regensburg

Date

20 April 1945

Target

Regensburg

Force dispatched

101 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

36 airmen in this archive died on 20 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 William Anderson (20)
• Lieutenant Blacklaws (19)
• Flight Sergeant Roger Thomas Bridger (24)
• Flight Sergeant Gordon Phillip Charlebois (29)
• Lieutenant Cowell
• Flight Sergeant Clarence George Cuddehay (45)
• Lieutenant Cuff
• Squadron Leader Eric Stanley Few (25)
• Warrant Officer Edward Arthur Green (24)
• Flying Officer Harry Robert Hanscom
• Flight Sergeant Alfred Edward Hewick
• Warrant Officer John Penboss Hunt (20)
• Pilot Officer Russell Stuart Jack (22)
• Air Mechanic Cornelius Lombard (23)
• Lieutenant Lowe (20)
• Flying Officer Archibald Roy McCurdy (25)
• Flight Lieutenant Bruce Calder McKenzie (24)
• Lieutenant John Hellon Nixon (24)
• Lieutenant Oakes
• Leading Aircraftman Albert John Paddon (36)
• Flight Sergeant Francis Clesphas Martial Robitaille (28)
• Flying Officer Alec Stanley Broadhurst Rushton (30)
• Flying Officer William Carnduff Russell (27)
• Flying Officer Bruce Fredric Scott (22)

See all 36 who died on 20 April →

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