Gelsenkirchen
28 February 1945 — Gelsenkirchen
- Date
- 28 February 1945
- Target
- Gelsenkirchen, Germany
- Force dispatched
- 20 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
22 airmen in this archive died on 28 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 George Atkinson (29)
- Sergeant Maurice Edward Balcom (27)
- Sergeant Edward James Cooper (20)
- Flight Lieutenant Geoffrey Fitton Coward (24)
- Flight Lieutenant Clifford Donald Cross (24)
- Flight Sergeant Hugh Cuthbertson (28)
- Corporal Nelson Fairgray
- Flying Officer William Robert Gibbs (21)
- Wing Commander Wilfrith Peter Green (30)
- Flight Sergeant John William Grice (20)
- Flying Officer William Alexander Leslie (26)
- Flying Officer James Roy Alexander Maconachie
- Lieutenant Mervyn F. T. Mainwaring (22)
- Flying Officer Neville Milne McNulty (29)
- Warrant Officer Class I Glenn Duncan McVicar (29)
- Warrant Officer Francis Colin Opie (36)
- Flying Officer Edward Anderson Paterson (22)
- Flight Sergeant John Lorn Rochester (32)
- Pilot Officer William Henry Russell (25)
- Flying Officer Frank Scott (22)
- Sergeant Albert Cyril Thoms (22)
- Air Mechanic Ware (24)
Source: RAF Bomber Command Campaign Diary (60th-Anniversary website, via the Wayback Machine) →