Stuttgart

Date

12 February 1945

Target

Stuttgart, Germany

Force dispatched

73 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

37 airmen in this archive died on 12 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.

• Flight Lieutenant Joseph Louis Alphonse Roland Bellisle
• Sergeant Frederick Ernest Boalch (22)
• Flight Lieutenant Hilliard Ernest Boucher (25)
• Flight Sergeant William George Brady (20)
• Flying Officer Thomas Gray Burton
• Squadron Leader Andrew Austin Cameron (50)
• Flight Sergeant Maxwell John Coleman (21)
• Flight Sergeant Bernard Leslie Reid Conolan (20)
• Pilot Officer Ward Douglas Coulson (25)
• Air Sergeant Robert Cowie (63)
• Pilot Officer Allan Bruce Crawford (20)
• Flight Sergeant John David Maccullough Douglas (22)
• Corporal William Gordon Bruce Dowell (35)
• Pilot Officer Stanley Maxwell Duncan
• Flying Officer William Andrew Eden (20)
• Flying Officer Norman Charles Fernley-stott (20)
• Flight Sergeant William John Fox (30)
• Pilot Officer Rupert Brooke Fraser (21)
• Sergeant Eric Austin Frost (21)
• Flight Lieutenant Douglas William Dorey Guest (23)
• Leading Aircraftman Peter John Haley (19)
• Air Corporal Clement Harrison (50)
• Flying Officer Stuart Alexander Wilson Hepburn (28)
• Flight Lieutenant John Weldon Hobbs

See all 37 who died on 12 February →

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