Ludwigshafen

Date

5 January 1945

Target

Ludwigshafen

Force dispatched

163 aircraft

Aircraft lost

2

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

120 airmen in this archive died on 5 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.

• Flying Officer John Charles Adams (23)
• Flight Lieutenant Bernard Mortimer Adilman (27)
• Flight Sergeant Keith Stanley Franz Allen (31)
• Flying Officer Richard Bruce Anderson (22)
• Flight Sergeant Richard James Andrews (23)
• Pilot Officer Clifford Norman Aune
• Pilot Officer William Bainbridge
• Aircraftman 2nd Class John Frederick Bartholomew (19)
• Flying Officer Leonard Ralph Belcher (31)
• Flying Officer Lawrence John Benville (21)
• Sergeant Edward Archibald Bishop (21)
• Lieutenant Boughey
• Warrant Officer William Francis Boughey (24)
• Flight Lieutenant Lorne William Brand
• Flying Officer Harry Patrick Breier
• Sergeant Harold Bryan Spencer Brenchley
• Pilot Officer Francis Norman Brown (19)
• Flight Sergeant Sidney Arthur Brown (20)
• Flight Sergeant Maxwell Browne (23)
• Corporal Bruce Allan Brownjohn (29)
• Flight Sergeant Walter Matthew Burton (24)
• Pilot Officer Norman Arthur Butler
• Aircraftman 2nd Class Peter Hixon Cain (19)
• Flight Sergeant Leonard William Cann (22)

See all 120 who died on 5 January →

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