Wanne-eickel

Date

7 February 1945

Target

Wanne-eickel

Force dispatched

75 aircraft

Aircraft lost

1

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

45 airmen in this archive died on 7 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)
• Squadron Leader Alexander Hallam Baird (25)
• Flying Officer John Leslie Beeson (26)
• Lieutenant Donovan John Beisiegel (21)
• Lieutenant Black (22)
• Air Mechanic Daniel Brazer
• Flight Lieutenant Gordon Oliver Cameron (23)
• Flight Sergeant Raey Hilton Cheatle (20)
• Flying Officer James Thomas Collins (21)
• Flight Sergeant Kenneth William Dobbie (20)
• Wing Commander John Keith Douglas (23)
• Flight Sergeant Frank Burton Elliott (22)
• Lieutenant David N. Findlay (25)
• Flight Sergeant Lancelot Lloyd Fitzgerald (19)
• Warrant Officer Class II John Edward Fitzpatrick (22)
• Warrant Officer James Morgan Harris (24)
• Flight Lieutenant Peter John Hedderwick (26)
• Flying Officer Harold Thomas Hesketh (23)
• Pilot Officer Arthur Percy Hoare (27)
• Flight Sergeant Joseph Patrick Holian (28)
• Flying Officer John Charles Jackman (25)
• Captain Jenkinson (32)
• Flight Lieutenant Gerard Stansfield Johnson (23)
• Wing Commander Peter Kingsley-strack (27)

See all 45 who died on 7 February →

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