Bad Oldesloe

Date

24 April 1945

Target

Bad Oldesloe

Force dispatched

110 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

57 airmen in this archive died on 24 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 Lloyd Hilbourne Amos
• Flying Officer Douglas George Baker (23)
• Flying Officer Peter Joseph Baker (24)
• Warrant Officer George Donald Barry (27)
• Flying Officer Allan Bernard Boyd
• Pilot Officer James Edwin Brambleby (24)
• Lieutenant T. J. McD. Breakey (22)
• Lieutenant Francis Bullard (30)
• Air Mechanic Carstens
• Pilot Officer Paxton Chapple (22)
• Flying Officer John Duncan Cruickshank (28)
• Pilot Officer Dennis Rupert Humphrey Curzon (20)
• Flying Officer Wilfred Tarquinas De Marco
• Flight Lieutenant Arthur Joseph Dilworth (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Arthur Blevyn Ely
• Flight Lieutenant Barry Desmond Emmet (24)
• Lieutenant Jack E. Filby (23)
• Flying Officer Edgar Ivan Ford (20)
• Corporal Daniel Guerin (37)
• Pilot Officer John Robert Hammond (20)
• Flying Officer William Edward Hanna (25)
• Warrant Officer Class II Paul Edouard Adolphe Henrichon (23)
• Flight Sergeant Lewis Ullysess Malcolm Hiatt (19)

See all 57 who died on 24 April →

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