Gelsenkirchen

Date

22 February 1945

Command

Bomber Command

Target

Gelsenkirchen, Germany

Force dispatched

82 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

61 airmen in this archive died on 22 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.

• Wing Commander Reginald William Baker (29)
• Flying Officer Donald William Bateman
• Flight Sergeant Henry Thomas Batten (28)
• Flight Lieutenant Philip Brown (28)
• Flying Officer Peter Harold Burne (21)
• Flight Sergeant Thomas George Campbell (20)
• Flight Sergeant Frederick Collie (34)
• Flight Lieutenant William Mackie Constable
• Flight Sergeant William Remington Cookson (23)
• Flying Officer William Cowan (25)
• Sergeant Thomas Frank Creedy (24)
• Pilot Officer Leo Patrick Curtin (20)
• Leading Aircraftman Kellems Richards Davey (20)
• Sergeant John Joseph Drake (21)
• Sergeant John Gower Evans (22)
• Flight Sergeant Ernest Edward Evershed (24)
• Pilot Officer Alan Noel Fletcher (24)
• Flight Lieutenant Alexander John Fowler (22)
• Pilot Officer Kennedy Gowlett (20)
• Warrant Officer Ronald John Graham (23)
• Corporal Philip Guiheneuf (25)
• Flying Officer Clifford Wesley Hall (22)
• Flying Officer Allan Edward Hayes (22)
• Lieutenant Alan George Hill (20)

See all 61 who died on 22 February →

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