Hannover

Date

10 February 1945

Target

Hannover

Force dispatched

104 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

49 airmen in this archive died on 10 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.

• Aircraftman 1st Class David McMillan Ainsworth (48)
• Warrant Officer John Begg (25)
• Leading Aircraftman John Bennett (51)
• Flight Sergeant Charles Henry Bowden (33)
• Flight Lieutenant Eugene Deverle Brown (27)
• Flight Lieutenant William Crawford Charde
• Flying Officer Herbert George Christie (21)
• Warrant Officer Class II Charles Edward Cruickshank (42)
• Pilot Officer James Andrew Taylor Dick (24)
• Flight Sergeant Graeme Mark Dockery (21)
• Flying Officer Jeffrey John Downing (22)
• Flight Sergeant Richard York French (21)
• Warrant Officer William Donald Garland Frost (25)
• Warrant Officer Class II Jarvis Erwin Gallop (23)
• Pilot Officer Jack Gingrich (38)
• Flying Officer Terence Ramsay Hailstone (20)
• Lieutenant Martyn Bruce Hall
• Sergeant Alvin Walter Heard (19)
• Flight Lieutenant William George Hodges (31)
• Flight Lieutenant Frank Dare Holdsworth (27)
• Sergeant Patrick Bernard Kellegher (24)
• Warrant Officer Class II Edward Frederick Knibbs (20)
• Corporal John Mitchell Lace (28)
• Flight Lieutenant George Alexander Liversidge (32)

See all 49 who died on 10 February →

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