Erfurt

Date

25 February 1945

Target

Erfurt

Force dispatched

20 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

47 airmen in this archive died on 25 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 Sergeant Edwin Richard Alm (28)
• Pilot Officer Herbert John Arnold (21)
• Lieutenant Bailey (24)
• Flight Lieutenant Ivor Bruce Benson (27)
• Pilot Officer John Gilbert Ross Buchanan (22)
• Warrant Officer Ivan William Butler (22)
• Wing Commander Cyril Nelson Carpenter
• Pilot Officer Leslie Anwyl Chadwick (25)
• Flying Officer Louise Philippe Cloutier (32)
• Leading Aircraftman Albert Edward Davis (45)
• Flying Officer Robert Stanley Edick
• Flying Officer Edward Maxwell England (25)
• Warrant Officer Class II William Ross Field (28)
• Lieutenant Flack (28)
• Flying Officer Vincent Bernard Fleming (20)
• Flight Sergeant Joseph Leo Gallipeau (21)
• Flying Officer James Ernest Gibberd (27)
• Flight Sergeant William George Godfrey (23)
• Flight Sergeant Charles Alexander Goodall (34)
• Pilot Officer Harold Richard Hammerton (20)
• Flight Sergeant Harold Hayes (23)
• Major Geoffrey Hilton-barber (25)
• Lieutenant Hingle (19)
• Pilot Officer Chester Allen Holmlund (22)

See all 47 who died on 25 February →

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