Bonn

Date

4 February 1945

Target

Bonn

Force dispatched

238 aircraft

Aircraft lost

5

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 4 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.

• Corporal Benjamin Ashlin
• Flight Lieutenant John Preston Barlow
• Flight Lieutenant Douglass John Alexander Buchanan (24)
• Squadron Leader Cyril Hudson Carscadden (27)
• Flight Lieutenant Walter George Deveson (24)
• Flight Lieutenant Mike Ewaschuk (24)
• Pilot Officer John Leslie Foreman (24)
• Flying Officer Jack Arthur Gibbs (29)
• Corporal Edward James Gordon (42)
• Sergeant Ernest Walter Hamilton (24)
• Flying Officer John Noel Hickey (25)
• Flying Officer Carl Herbert Howald (22)
• Pilot Officer Neil Arbuthnot Hurst (24)
• Flight Lieutenant William Robert Kearns (24)
• Flight Sergeant Dixon Ross Keast (20)
• Pilot Officer Keith Oswald Langham (20)
• Flying Officer Alexander Stephen Lees (24)
• Captain Macguire (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Neil Duncan Mara (24)
• Flight Lieutenant Roy Edward Maynard (29)
• Flying Officer Wilfred Laurier Melbourne (28)
• Pilot Officer Oswald Mountford (21)
• Sergeant Harold John Niemi (25)
• Air Commodore Joseph Rylands (59)

See all 36 who died on 4 February →

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