Bottrop

Date

3 February 1945

Command

Bomber Command

Target

Bottrop

Force dispatched

12 aircraft

Aircraft lost

12

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

85 airmen in this archive died on 3 February 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 Sidney George Arlotte (24)
• Flying Officer Oswald Walter Armstrong (22)
• Corporal Benjamin Ashlin
• Flight Sergeant Lawrence Herbert Beaumont
• Flying Officer Henry James Bennett (29)
• Flight Sergeant Norman Brian Bird (20)
• Flying Officer Stanley Buckland Stewart Bishop (28)
• Pilot Officer Allan George Bradley (19)
• Flying Officer Warren Argo Brodie
• Warrant Officer Alexander Brown (25)
• Flying Officer Gordon Scott Brown (25)
• Squadron Leader Cyril Hudson Carscadden (27)
• Pilot Officer Joseph Alexander Chisamore (20)
• Flight Sergeant William Henry Cook (20)
• Flight Lieutenant Walter George Deveson (24)
• Flying Officer Alan Quilliam Downward (20)
• Flight Sergeant Edward Charles Dufresne (18)
• Flying Officer Victor Dunn (31)
• Pilot Officer Peter Frederick English (27)
• Flight Lieutenant Mike Ewaschuk (24)
• Lieutenant Martin Patrick Farrell (21)
• Flying Officer Warren James Keating Fisher
• Flight Lieutenant Thomas Edward Gallivan (22)
• Corporal Edward James Gordon (42)

See all 85 who died on 3 February →

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