Flensburg

Date

23 April 1945

Target

Flensburg

Force dispatched

148 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

37 airmen in this archive died on 23 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.

• Sergeant James Keir Allan (20)
• Flying Officer Peter Joseph Baker (24)
• Flight Lieutenant Noel Vincent Borland (34)
• Aircraftman 2nd Class John Howard Carmichael (21)
• Air Mechanic Carstens
• Pilot Officer Raymond Thomas Casey (22)
• Sergeant Hugh Ernest Clark (24)
• Sergeant George Geoffrey Cockroft
• Flight Sergeant Patrick Joseph Crowley (30)
• Lieutenant Jack E. Filby (23)
• Flying Officer Edgar Ivan Ford (20)
• Flying Officer Harold John Gibbs (21)
• Flying Officer Wilfred Cleland Hall (24)
• Flying Officer Timothy Hartnett
• Flight Lieutenant Robert Lance Jenyns (28)
• Squadron Leader James Russell Johnson (29)
• Warrant Officer Malcolm Clair Keightley (22)
• Flight Sergeant George Kilpatrick (20)
• Flight Lieutenant Robert Henderson Lamason (30)
• Leading Aircraftman Joseph Lealand
• Flying Officer Conrad Albert Lee (21)
• Flying Officer Richard Bruce Livingstone (29)
• Flying Officer Eric Rex Loton (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Hugh McFadden (22)

See all 37 who died on 23 April →

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