Dortmund

Date

26 February 1945

Target

Dortmund, Germany

Force dispatched

149 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

30 airmen in this archive died on 26 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.

• Leading Aircraftman Joseph Marcel Belanger (22)
• Flying Officer Rodolphe Joseph Lorenzo Boucher (31)
• Flight Sergeant Morley Junior Brewer (19)
• Flying Officer Henry James Brock (23)
• Warrant Officer Ivan William Butler (22)
• Flying Officer Sidney Thomas Carson (20)
• Pilot Officer Leslie Anwyl Chadwick (25)
• Sergeant Griffith Wynne Dixon (25)
• Flight Lieutenant John Fredrick Filteau
• Flight Sergeant Frederick George Fisher (30)
• Lieutenant Flack (28)
• Flight Sergeant Joseph Leo Gallipeau (21)
• Flight Sergeant Charles Alexander Goodall (34)
• Flight Sergeant Stuart Samuel Hagerty (21)
• Squadron Leader Jack Holloway (28)
• Flight Sergeant Cyril Jackson (30)
• Pilot Officer Angus Mackie (23)
• Flight Lieutenant Claude Mapletoft (28)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Douglas Moore
• Flight Sergeant Thomas Edward Murphy
• Pilot Officer Harold Osbourn (34)
• Wing Commander John Richard Ratten (35)
• Flying Officer Richard McDiarmid Scott (26)
• Flying Officer John Edward Stanton (28)

See all 30 who died on 26 February →

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