Dortmund

Date

3 January 1945

Target

Dortmund, Germany

Force dispatched

100 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

43 airmen in this archive died on 3 January 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 Peter Flemming Abercrombie (27)
• Flying Officer Walter Vernon Wilfred Allamby (26)
• Flight Sergeant Alexander Gordon Bolger (23)
• Corporal James Carson Broadbent (24)
• Flight Lieutenant Charles Milne Brodie
• Pilot Officer Veral Clarence Bullock (23)
• Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Denison Cox (24)
• Flight Sergeant John Edward Dansey
• Flying Officer Ulva Neil Dudley (25)
• Flight Sergeant Geoffrey James Dunbar (22)
• Flight Sergeant Richard Emonson (21)
• Aircraftman 1st Class Ernest John Benjamin Finn (28)
• Flight Sergeant Francis Charles Haglund (25)
• Flight Lieutenant Arthur Hugh Harris (24)
• Flying Officer Bruce Allan Hogg (32)
• Warrant Officer James Stevenson Hogg (46)
• Flight Sergeant Douglas Egbert Hooper (28)
• Warrant Officer Class I Harold Oliver Irvine (25)
• Flying Officer James Parsloe Jenkins
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Albert John Linford (25)
• Warrant Officer George Robert Colquhourn Lowe (31)
• Warrant Officer Andrew Wallace Lyon (30)
• Flight Sergeant Donald Wilfred McLennan (22)
• Warrant Officer John Sawers McQueen (26)

See all 43 who died on 3 January →

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