Bielefeld

Date

6 February 1945

Target

Bielefeld, Germany

Force dispatched

35 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

42 airmen in this archive died on 6 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.

• Warrant Officer Class I Vivian Gordon Harris Archibald (29)
• Flight Sergeant Layton Challander Barrett (20)
• Flight Sergeant Edgar Alan Barsby (20)
• Flying Officer John Leslie Beeson (26)
• Lieutenant Donovan John Beisiegel (21)
• Corporal William George Blair (23)
• Flight Sergeant Ronald Arthur Brock
• Sergeant James Sydney Brown (24)
• Flying Officer James Thomas Collins (21)
• Corporal David Cooper (24)
• Flying Officer William Arnold Coott
• Flight Sergeant Kenneth William Dobbie (20)
• Flight Sergeant Frank Burton Elliott (22)
• Flying Officer David Henry Robert Evans (24)
• Lieutenant David N. Findlay (25)
• Flight Sergeant Lancelot Lloyd Fitzgerald (19)
• Flying Officer Kenneth Gilbert Forseth (22)
• Flight Sergeant Christian Henry Gerner (20)
• Flight Sergeant William Roy Gregory (22)
• Warrant Officer James Morgan Harris (24)
• Sergeant George Edward William Hodge (29)
• Flight Sergeant Joseph Patrick Holian (28)
• Flying Officer John Charles Jackman (25)
• Wing Commander Peter Kingsley-strack (27)

See all 42 who died on 6 February →

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